Paul Hanagan on the race to be champion jockey - BBC Sport

Paul Hanagan on the race to be champion jockey
BBC Sport
But he remains determined to defy the odds by becoming champion jockey in November. At the start of the Flat racing season in March he was a ...

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Chris McGrath: Rip Van Winkle looks Champion choice to signal autumn awakening ... - Independent

Chris McGrath: Rip Van Winkle looks Champion choice to signal autumn awakening ...
Independent
Two months to go to the Breeders' Cup, and Flat racing's big ranches have yet to bring the harvest in. But the next few days will be fairly critical. ...

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Tip of the Day - Wall Street Journal

Tip of the Day
Wall Street Journal
In the rolling hills of northwest England, York's Ebor meeting is the last big flat-racing festival of the British summer. Thursday's highlight, the Darley ...

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THE GLAMOUR and excitement of competing in the top races will have to wait. - This is North Devon

THE GLAMOUR and excitement of competing in the top races will have to wait.
This is North Devon
"There has never been a female flat champion jockey, and that's my aim. "I never thought I would be doing this. It was a dream and now it's coming true."

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Fallon out to scupper rivals on Sea Lord - Irish Independent

Fallon out to scupper rivals on Sea Lord
Irish Independent
Six-time British champion jockey Kieren Fallon, who completed a hat-trick of Irish Champion Stakes victories on his subsequent 'Arc' hero ...

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Can a rocking horse save jockeys lives? John Francome backs machine that ... - Daily Mail


Daily Mail
Can a rocking horse save jockeys lives? John Francome backs machine that ...
Daily Mail
Which was why he was at the British Racing School in Newmarket last week as a succession of young jockeys were taught the art of how to fall off a horse ...

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Brazil: the largest country in South America declared its independence from Portugal (1822)

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by Paul Theroux