A race-eve side deal will ensure the stakes are raised even higher for a colt rated as one of the main threats to the world's best sprinter Nature Strip winning the $15 million Everest for a second time.
In a race fashioned out of negotiations between stables, racehorse owners and the 12 slot holders who each pay $600,000 for a piece of the action, the overnight sale of three-year-old Jacquinot may turn out to be the biggest coup linked to this year's sprint at Randwick.
