08-12-2011, 06:14
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Re: Horse Racing
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...ar/958765/top/
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TRAINER Richard Hannon on Wednesday drew level with Mark Johnston’s record tally of 216 British winners in a calendar year.
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Well done. 
http://www.racingpost.com/news/horse...28/958777/top/
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SHAHRASTANI, the horse who claimed a famous Derby victory over Dancing Brave in 1986, has died at stud at the age of 28.
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Bred and owned by the Aga Khan and trained by Sir Michael Stoute, Shahrastani won the Sandown Classic Trial and Dante Stakes before winning at Epsom under Walter Swinburn, where he held off the fast finishing Dancing Brave by a neck.
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He then went to the Curragh where he added the Irish Derby in emphatic style, clinching his fourth success in a row by a resounding eight lengths. After finishing fourth in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and fourth in a star studded Arc, made memorable by the winning performance of old foe Dancing Brave, he was retired to stud.
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