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More jockey drama in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Jockey Club has charged Harry Bentley, but whatever the outcome of that, a week and a half from now the focus will have moved on to which jockeys made the IJC shortlist.

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David Morgan

Yutaka Take: the human face of Japan’s racing revolution

David Morgan profiles the man who has been a constant through the last 40 years of Japanese racing and whose fame transcends the sport in his country.

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Mandarin Hero set towards August race return

The NAR’s Kentucky Derby runner is prepping for some possible big race targets at home and abroad, leaving Mick Fire to shoot for a home track hat-trick.

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【閃爍之夜】大井競馬場與北美賽馬的淵源

日本地方馬會主題賽事通常在週中舉行。自Mandarin Hero海外遠征後,屬於地方馬會的大井競馬場看似不再「地方」。

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Tokyo City Keiba: Shadai’s reach and talk of American adventures at Oí’s ‘Twinkle Night’

The NAR is Japan’s stock ‘midweek’ fare, but on the back of Mandarin Hero there is a sense down at Oí that the Tokyo City Keiba experience has relevance beyond its ‘local’ status.

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Kazushi Kimura: relishing challenges in a land of opportunity

Woodbine’s Japanese champion has mixed with legends at Santa Anita this winter and is teaming up with an unusual Japanese raider as he looks to enhance his rising profile across North America

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Costa Rolfe: Mark Twain to reprise Cup account?

Author Mark Twain famously wrote about the Melbourne Cup in 1895. Could a New Zealand stayer of the same name be plotting a course toward the 2023 renewal?

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Daisuke Fukumoto is one of a new ilk of Japanese jockeys abroad

The former ‘Jockey Baby’ with an international outlook is now an established rider at Woodbine where his compatriot Kazushi Kimura keeps on turning heads.

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