NEWS
Bloodstock agent Richard Galpin suffers stroke
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:48 PM
by John P. Sparkman
Veteran bloodstock agent Richard Galpin, 71, suffered “a massive stroke with hemorrhaging to the brain” on February 23 while in Miami for the Fasig-Tipton Calder sale of selected two-year-olds in training.
Galpin was on life support at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in Aventura, Florida, on Tuesday.
“They say he is clinically dead,” said bloodstock agent Hugo Merry, who has worked with Galpin in recent years purchasing horses for clients of English trainer Brian Meehan. “They're just waiting for the family to fly over from England, and then his wife said, barring a miracle, they'll take him off life support.”
Formerly of Newmarket, England, and now based in Lexington, Galpin has bought horses worldwide for more than 30 years, usually in the name of his Newmarket International Thoroughbred Consultants.
“This was his favorite sale,” Meehan said. “We're signing the tickets here in his name in his memory.”
John P. Sparkman is bloodstock editor of Thoroughbred Times
