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REBEL FITZ THE BILL.

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Rebel Fitz just held off the late thrust of Cause Of Causes to take the glory in an incident-packed Guinness Galway Hurdle.

Strongly-supported favourite Drive Time and Ruby Walsh suffered a nasty fall before the race really began in earnest, bringing down another leading hope in Donald McCain's British challenger Lexi's Boy under Jason Maguire.

The Michael Winters-trained Rebel Fitz travelled sweetly in the hands of Davy Russell, who sent his mount to the lead and looked set to run out a ready winner, but celebrated with a few strides to go and Cause Of Causes only just failed to catch him. Captain Cee Bee ran a highly creditable race to finish third, with Plan A fourth.

METAL TOO TOUGH TO PASS.

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Richard Hannon was denied his fifth successive victory in the Audi Richmond Stakes as Heavy Metal bounced back to form for Mark Johnston.

The youngster had won two of his first three career outings but having seemingly had his limitations exposed in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot and the July Stakes at Newmarket, he was a 9-1 shot for this Group Two Test.

Heavy Metal was always towards the front end and although Hannon's Master Of War was closing in the last of the six furlongs, Joe Fanning's mount held on by half a length to give the rider his third win of the meeting and Johnston his fourth.

GOODWOOD GOES WILD FOR COCO.

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Sir Henry Cecil and Tom Queally both notched up their fourth winner of the 2012 Glorious Goodwood meeting as Wild Coco made an excellent return to action in the iShares Fillies' Stakes.

The four-year-old had disappointed 12 months ago when a hot favourite for the Group Three contest better known as the Lillie Langtry Stakes, and was also well held on her only subsequent start at York last August.

The 6-1 chance looked to have plenty to do on her belated return against a clutch of in-form rivals, but she showed a smart change of gear to take up the lead. French outsider Jehannedarc ran on well to fill the runner-up spot, beaten two and three-quarter lengths, with Estimate a further head away in third.