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Top Notch Could Prove To Be Just That Back Over Hurdles

The fourth and final day of the Leopardstown Christmas Festival (Sunday 29th December) featured key trials for the Cheltenham Festival in March. Battleoverdoyen and Sharjah won the Grade 1 races and are now leading contenders for the RSA Chase and Champion Hurdle. Champ runs at Cheltenham on New Year's Day and his performance will have[...]
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Four Selections For A Boxing Day Yankee

The Kauto Star Novices' Chase is the third Grade 1 race at Kempton today. Fusil Raffles and Cyrname have been tipped for the Christmas Hurdle and King George VI Chase and Black Op is the selection to complete the treble. Meanwhile at Wetherby, Didero Vallis has the ratings and form to get in the mix[...]
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Magic Wand’s odyssey continues at Hong Kong International Races

Even some of the incredibly well-travelled fillies and mares who have visited the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races over the years are comparative hermits when considering the odyssey of Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Cup (2000m) contender Magic Wand. Names on the meeting's roll of honour such as Alexander Goldrun – three times a runner[...]
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Anthony Van Dyck is a Derby first at the Hong Kong International Races

It was the master Italian breeder Federico Tesio who once remarked that the existence of the thoroughbred depended on a single criterion, namely the winning post of the Derby at Epsom. Times have changed in the subsequent decades as racing becomes ever globalised as well as favoured towards speed and precocity, yet it remains by[...]
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