Not really, says Hudson, although she recognizes the fact that Brazil has a growing middle class and that trend is not reversing.

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As a Euro-builder, she soon showed, she is not in Mr Kohl's class.

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But while Hilton is appropriately young, rich and well-connected, she's not exactly a cover girl for class, what with those sex tapes, drug charges and reality TV shows.

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The four-year-old, trained by James Fanshawe, showed that you do not have to be a millionaire to have top-class racehorses, owned as she is by the 17, 000-strong Elite Racing Club syndicate.

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When he does get up, he is annoyed that his wife has not yet made his breakfast, and that she has plans to attend a yoga class, which means she will leave him with a cold box lunch.

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