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RACING has attracted its highest profile new owner in years with the news that Wayne Rooney will have a two-year-old in training with Tom Dascombe in 2012.

Apart from the occasional day out at Chester, Rooney has previously not shown a great interest in racing, until a month or so ago when teammate Michael Owen invited him to Manor House Stables, the yard that he owns in partnership with Betfair co-founder Andrew 'Bert' Black, and where the Rooneys' first horse will be trained.

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STAYING hurdle hero Big Buck's will not run again until Cheltenham in March, when he will bid to win the Ladbrokes World Hurdle for an unprecedented fourth consecutive time.

Nicholls said: “Big Buck’s won’t run again until Cheltenham. Andy [Stewart, owner] and I had a chat on Saturday night and we’vedecided to do what we did last year, which means just giving him a racecourse gallop before the World Hurdle to sharpen him up.

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TRAINER Rodolphe Collet has revealed that triple Sun Chariot Stakes winner Sahpresa has been retired to owner Teruya Yoshida's Shadai Farm in Japan.

Sahpresa won five Group races in as many campaigns and it was her unique hat-trick in the Kingdom of Bahrain-sponsored Sun Chariot at Newmarket which cemented her place in the record books.