New players
for pointers

THE fast-moving point-to-point trade – buy to run, to sell in an 18-month period ishows no signs of slowing down. New players are even entering the fray. Tom Malone bought the second highest-priced horse at Cheltenham, Envoi Allen, for £400,000, and the purchaser of a young National Hunt horse might have been a surprise to many. And that he will be trained in this country, bought for the Thompsons of Cheveley Park Stud to go to Gordon Elliott.