1 Looking after Sheikh al Hassan's bloodstock interests.

2 Bloodstock, mares, stallions, used to travel abroad loaded up with notes.

3 By slow degrees, the world of the bloodstock sales lost the best part of its consuming interest for Dada.

4 But with the current depressed state of bloodstock trading there was little prospect of any records being broken.

5 Horse racing's decline was deepened by last year's collapse in bloodstock values.

6 As for insurance, the market for horses is dominated by nine main companies with an estimated bloodstock trade of ￡400 million.

7 Last year Sangster sold his Vernons Pools empire for ￡90m in order to concentrate on his bloodstock interests.