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IT’S that time of year when racing’s great and good start to get that winter sun itch.
The summer has come and gone in two shakes of a lamb’s tail and the first ‘Road to Cheltenham’ posts are mere days away.
Anyone with a horse good enough to race overseas will be thumbing through brochures as we speak in a bid to keep the winter blues at bay a little longer.
The warmer climes of the Breeders’ Cup in LA are set to prove as popular as ever, and it’s shaping up to be the biggest British invasion since Dunkirk.
Hopefully it will be a good bit more successful, mind you. It’s a long way to send a flotilla of rowing boats to rescue our brave boys and girls if it goes Pete Tong.