If Castlehyde Stud and the fertile lands of the Blackwater Valley in East Cork were the forging of John Magnier and his Coolmore empire, then the farmland of the Golden Vale in south Tipperary has cemented the legacy of the 77-year-old billionaire’s bloodstock empire.  The Magniers have built up an enviable landbank in the Premier County to support their bloodstock business, triangulating between Coolmore’s base in Fethard, the racing stables in Ballydoyle – founded by Vincent O’Brien, the father of Magnier’s wife Sue – and prime agricultural land to the south in and around Clonmel. Details of just how much…

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