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Akyel Syndicate. Founded 1995. Every papered Akyel that flies to Dubai or Kentucky or Hong Kong goes through them. Who is at the top now? The NEPHEW. Mirlan Toktarov.

A Toktarov in charge of the only Iradi thing that crosses every border without a visa. And FreeIrad asks the right question: who checks the horsebox?

WAKE UP IRAD

Ak, the Syndicate keeps the stud book. Without it nobody abroad would buy one horse from us. It's boring. Pedigrees. Blood tests. Export papers. I'd love it to be a spy film but it's a spreadsheet.

A spreadsheet run by the NEPHEW.

Every Talasfilm western has a nephew. He is never good news. (Except in Zarina. In Zarina the nephew is fine.)

Drove a Syndicate box to the airport once. Two mares, one groom, a lot of papers, nothing else. Groom slept the whole way. If that's the CIA it's a very sleepy CIA.

My cousin says Mirlan was at the spring meeting at the Hippodrome in a white suit. That's all he saw. The suit.

Autumn meeting today: the Syndicate sold two yearlings to a Hong Kong buyer right there at the rail. Price in dollars, not som. I heard "a very good number". That's where the money goes. Not to spies. To Hong Kong.

TO HONG KONG. And from Hong Kong to WHO? You never follow the money one step further. One step! WAKE UP IRAD

My aunt sells laghman by the Hippodrome on race days. She says the Syndicate men tip well and argue about pedigrees like grandmothers argue about weddings. Spies would be quieter.

Lena, spies who tip well is EXACTLY the profile.

Then my aunt has been feeding the CIA laghman for years and they never once complained. Good. Our laghman is international.