ALAN King rounded off the National Hunt season on a high when he trained the winner of the Grade 3 Bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown. Talkischeap was bred by Michael Veale and sold by him and Tom McCarthy as a foal at Goffs for €5,800.

He is from the first crop of Getaway (Monsun), which also includes the Grade 1 winning mare Verdana Blue, and the gelding was reoffered at the Land Rover Sale three years later where Sean Doyle of Monbeg Stables purchased him for €10,500. This looked a bargain when the gelding won three of his four point-to-points for Doyle, who then profited from his £55,000 sale at Cheltenham to Highflyer Bloodstock on behalf of Charlie Dingwall and trainer Alan King.