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Tue 10 Oct 2007Coolmore go to €650,000 for smart Montjeu coltThe economic soothsayers, who have been loudly proclaiming the fall of the sky, would probably do well to steer clear of the Goffs Sales complex this week. If the country is, indeed, facing imminent penury then someone forgot to tell those attending Ireland's premier yearling sale yesterday.Instead the first of three days of the Million Sale kicked off with an exhibition of raucous financial health that looked spectacular to any onlooker peering in and was commonly described as "solid" by those professionals at the centre of it all.