Mulhern's horse sense

Eimear Mulhern's ambitious plan for Ireland's bloodstock industry faces its final hurdle in September.

The event will be the richest two-year-old race in Europe: the Goffs Million. The aim is to replicate the razzmatazz of Australia's Melbourne Cup by staging the race a couple of days before the Ryder Cup.

When Mulhern took the reigns at Goffs, the sales company's British competitors were eating into its home turf.

Goffs' slice of the yearling ...