The horse that Irish Olympian Greg Broderick competed on in Rio this summer has been sold to a Greek heiress for what is believed to be a record-breaking fee.
The Irish Field are reporting that MHS Going Global has been sold to Athina Onassis - granddaughter of the Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and step granddaughter to Jackie Kennedy Onassis - for a fee in the region of €10m - €12m.
Such a fee would be the biggest ever for an Irish horse and also one of the most expensive show jumping horses in the world.
The Irish Sport Horse has been owned for the past five years by Canadian Lee Kruger and Broderick.
Broderick, who keeps the horse at his Ballypatrick Stables in Co Tipperary, rode a double clear round on MHS Going Global in the Nations Cup at the 2015 Dublin Horse Show to clinch the Aga Khan trophy for Ireland.
He said he hoped the sale would "put Ireland back on the map as a place to buy world class horses."
The gelding was bred by the late Ita Brennan at Mill House Stud in Gowran, Co Kilkenny
