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Royal Ascot to expand meeting to seven races a day
Ascot will permanently expand its famous royal meeting with the introduction of seven-race cards each day after its revised schedule proved popular with bookmakers and connections last year. The five-day meeting, which begins on June 15, was expanded last season to facilitate extra runners, whose campaigns were severely interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic before the... Read More
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Epiphaneia beckons for Japan Cup heroine Almond Eye
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