The Green Monkey continues to make a monkey of Pletcher and Coolmore

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Coolmore's $16million purchase from the Fasig-Tipton Calder two-year-olds in training breeze-ups in Florida suffered repeated physical problems that kept him on the sidelines last year.

Monkey on their back: Michael Tabor (left) and Todd Pletcher (centre)

And when he finally hit the track on September 15 at Belmont, he trailed home third of six as a 2-5 favourite in a $52,000 six-furlong maiden special weights for three-year-olds and upwards.

Trainer Todd Pletcher had hoped that a step up in distance to seven furlongs would help the son of Forestry, but again he disappointed in a similar grade under John Velazquez, trailing in fourth of seven to Giant Deputy.

The amount paid for The Green Monkey by the Michael Tabor-Derrick Smith-John Magnier axis eclipsed the previous record public auction price for a thoroughbred, when Seattle Dancer fetched 13.1m as a yearling in 1985.