Emirates wins bidding duel Nasser Lootah's Emirates Park Stud made a statement buying a Fastnet Rock colt for $4 million, seeing off breeding powerhouse Coolmore in the process, at the Inglis Easter yearling sales at Newmarket on Wednesday. The colt out of River Dove started at $200,000 but jumped through the $1million barrier as Emirates Park and Coolmore went bid for bid. ""At Emirates we are building up and it is great that the boss and everyone is supporting us,"" Emirates Park chief executive Trevor Lobb said. ""You never buy a horse to any price. We put a value on him and we were there, we bought him so we are very pleased. We thought he would be the horse that Coolmore would like to buy, too, and we thought we just have to best them, so that is good. He is the most magnificent colt. He walks [well] and he is out of a group-1 winner, he has the pedigree. If he trains on and if we are good judges, and he is a good galloper, you only have to walk him out and he makes a stallion.""The vendor, Cressfield Stud principal Bruce Neill, was staggered. ""We knew he was a quality colt who has been out [for inspections] many times. He is the fourth foal of the mare and I was surprised that we made that sort of money,"" he said. ""I was expecting about a million and we thought he was one of the colts of the sale, but that is a total surprise.""