This little guy is the price of a unit
of El Buen Pastor prison, which inmates describe as “one of the best patios”.
While she had spent more than a month in Patio Five of Colombia’s biggest women’s prison, she is now the proud single resident of cell 12 in Patio Seven, which is closest to the guards in a wing that is entirely closed to other prisoners.
“Cassie is in that patio because of the number of threats she’s been receiving,” a fellow prisoner said.
“They had to move her for her own safety.”
Sainsbury’s move came as explosive claims she was formerly a fly-in-fly-out Western Sydney prostitute. She was arrested on April 11 with 5.8kg of cocaine at Bogota international airport.
Sainsbury initially denied carrying the drugs, but later revealed she was seeking witness protection after being blackmailed into becoming a drugs mule to protect her family.
Patio Seven is reserved for prisoners with special security requirements. It houses between 18 to 20 inmates in its 23 cells. “It’s one of the best patios, it doesn’t have drug addiction or vandalism,” a prison source said.
Sainsbury has previously been targeted by other prisoners, some of whom wanted money and others who were unhappy with their new highprofile cellmate. Chief reporter HE’S already worth as much as an apartment on the Coast, and this shiny young colt could earn his new buyers even more this time next year.
Owners of the weanling, sired by Not a Single Doubt, are hoping he’ll reap upwards of $200,000 at the Magic Millions National Sales, which start this week at Bundall.
While the glamour and celebrity of the January Magic Millions give the summer sales a higher profile, it is midyear when the serious horse business happens, with sales cracking $107 million last year.
In four short years it has become the biggest breeding stock sale in the Southern Hemisphere. VIN COX
Managing director Vin Cox said the Magic Millions National Sales were offering 150 more horses this year than last – a total of 2400 animals, including 565 weanlings.
“This week we are selling weanlings, young horses that turn one on August 1, and they will become the yearlings of next year,” he said.
“Next week we have mares, race fillies off the track, and then mares that are in foal. The week after that we have yearlings.
“It’s something we’re very proud of, only four years ago the whole sale grossed just on $30 million and last year it grossed over $107 million.”
Mr Cox said the weanling market was growing swiftly, with many breeders choosing to offload all their stock before it was a year old.
Up to 70 per cent of horses bought as weanlings are onsold as yearlings.
“People buy weanlings to trade on as yearlings and hopefully make money on the way through. It’s what they call pinhooking,” Mr Cox said.
Kambula Stud operator David Toole trucked his entire crop of 18 foals 2000km from Kadina in South Australia to be sold on the Gold Coast.
“This is the third year we have brought our entire draft,” he said. “We were the first ones in Australia to do it. It is the best sale in Australia to sell at.”
Mr Cox while said most sellers were from within Australia or New Zealand, many buyers came from overseas. “There will be a lot of people going through the Gold Coast for the various sales, whether it’s weanlings, mares or yearlings, because they’re different markets.
“We have a lot of internationals coming – South Africans, Americans, Europeans, people from the Middle East, Kiwis and all over Australia.”