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) AUTHORIZED TOPS ARC DOZEN
Authorized will face 11 rivals as he bids to cap a hugely successful season with victory in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.Winner of the Derby and the International Stakes at York for trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam, Authorized will step back up to a mile-and-a-half in the French feature.
Aidan O'Brien has declared both Soldier Of Fortune and Dylan Thomas with the supplemented Song Of Hiawatha and Yellowstone also in the race.
However, the Ballydoyle handler has withdrawn Acapulco, Archipenko and Red Rock Canyon at the final declaration stage.
The Mick Channon-trained Youmzain and Geoff Wragg's Dragon Dancer complete the British raiding party.
Getaway, Mandesha, and Sagara complete the home team while Saddex, trained by Peter Rau, is the sole German raider. More>>
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) Nobel prize season opens on Monday
STOCKHOLM - The 2007 Nobel prize season opens Monday with the announcement of the medicine prize, as the fight against climate change is tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize and speculation is rife for the literature award.As always the Nobel prize committees are keeping mum ahead of the much-awaited announcements, leaving observers to engage in a wild guessing game.
For the peace prize, to be announced in Oslo on Friday, a total of 181 individuals and organisations are known to have been nominated. The battle against global warming is seen as a strong candidate for the prestigious award, with former US vice president Al Gore and Canadian Inuit Sheila Watt-Cloutier believed to be contenders. Gore has brought the issue to the top of the international agenda with his 2006 film �An Inconvenient Truth,� while Watt-Cloutier, the former head of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, has campaigned to draw attention to climate change in the Arctic. More>> - (
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It has always been easy for Fred Gillis to operate under the radar.At a fit and ready 135 pounds, he's so small he tends to disappear in a crowd.
Despite his size - or perhaps because of it - the 54-year-old veteran has had a remarkable career that receives less notice than it deserves.
He posted seven victories on the opening three-day weekend of the Northlands fall standardbred meet, but the feat drew little attention outside the track itself.
Gillis is not bothered by a lack of attention: "I feel good that Dugout Andee had a personal record when we won on Monday."
Gillis and harness racing have had a lifelong love affair.
"I was jogging horses at nine (in Nova Scotia) and started driving when I was 11," he recalled. More>>
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) Grade I Winner Asi Siempre Retired, Consigned to Fasig-Tipton November
After a fifth-place finish in the Oct. 7 Spinster Stakes (gr. I) at Keeneland, Martin Schwartz's Asi Siempre has been retired and will be sold at the Fasig-Tipton selected fall mixed sale Nov. 4, trainer Patrick Biancone said Oct. 11."She is in the sale in early November, and the only race really possible before then would be the Breeders’ Cup (Distaff), and I’m not sure she would have a shot; it’s as simple as that," the trainer said. "She was a lovely horse to train and we had a lot of fun with her, and it’s good to see her going to a new duty in good shape."
A Kentucky-bred daughter of El Prado out of the Silver Hawk mare Siempre Asi, the 5-year-old mare won seven of 21 starts and earned $953,300 while winning or hitting the board in 10 stakes. More>>
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LONDON - Champion jockey Kieren Fallon lost a horse race after holding a five-length lead in the home stretch, which sparked an investigation into race-fixing, a prosecutor said Tuesday.Fallon and five others are accused of interfering with the running of horses to ensure they lost 27 races in Britain between December 2002 and September 2004. They are charged with conspiracy to defraud customers who used the online betting site Betfair.
Prosecutor Jonathan Caplan said an independent racing steward who watched footage of the race noted that Fallon was five or six lengths ahead of rest of the field on horse Ballinger Ridge with two furlongs left.
"But Fallon then dramatically slows his momentum to the point where he is doing virtually nothing," Caplan told the jury at the Old Bailey. More>>