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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8016457, member: 128351"]First, Philip II was probably the richest person in Greece at the time, and Bucephalus a superhorse with a pedigree tracing his ancestry back to Pegasus himself (Had I been the seller, this is what I would have told him). </p><p>Now let's be realistic. Have you heard of the yearlings auctions in Deauville? When they take place there are no vacancies in the Royal or the Normandy Hotels. Bidders from the whole planet are here, emirs and princes from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf who land in Saint Gatien airport on their private jets and jam the traffic with their caravans of armoured limousines. In their culture nothing is more prestigious than an outstanding horse and they can pay anything for it. Anything. I think it is very likely that Philip of Macedon shared the same ideas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8016457, member: 128351"]First, Philip II was probably the richest person in Greece at the time, and Bucephalus a superhorse with a pedigree tracing his ancestry back to Pegasus himself (Had I been the seller, this is what I would have told him). Now let's be realistic. Have you heard of the yearlings auctions in Deauville? When they take place there are no vacancies in the Royal or the Normandy Hotels. Bidders from the whole planet are here, emirs and princes from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf who land in Saint Gatien airport on their private jets and jam the traffic with their caravans of armoured limousines. In their culture nothing is more prestigious than an outstanding horse and they can pay anything for it. Anything. I think it is very likely that Philip of Macedon shared the same ideas.[/QUOTE]
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