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But racing is also an international sport, with British, Irish and French contenders in the Dubai World Cup meeting in March, in the Breeders Cup series in America in the autumn and in the Hong Kong Festival meeting in December.
Even the horses got in on the act, with Best Mate retaining his Cheltenham Gold Cup crown, High Chaparral winning the Breeders' Cup Turf again - and Persian Punch continuing to duck retirement and keep on winning.
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Trinniberg, last year's Breeders' Cup Sprint champion, set the early pace before fading to seventh.
Lure won 14 of 25 starts, including the Breeders' Cup Mile in 1992 and 1993.
He helped found the Breeders' Cup and was inducted into racing's Hall of Fame in 1972.
She improved to 3 for 3 on the turf here, including the 2011 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Fillies.
Workforce's withdrawal left Henry Cecil's Midday to carry British hopes at the meeting in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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She won 12 of 21 starts including the Kentucky Oaks, Breeders' Cup Distaff and Coaching Club American Oaks.
But as Midnight Lucky began to tire, she was overtaken by Beholder, last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies champion.
His first crop of progeny, which included the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies champion Stardom Bound, quickly increased his value.
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He also came under fire in some quarters for his ride on the frustrating Antonius Pius, who finished second in the Breeders' Cup Mile.
The hype was Macy's balloon-sized for this horse, who was undefeated as a 2-year-old until the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, where he came in second.
And the three-year-old rounded the season off in style with victory in the Fillies and Mares Turf race at the Breeders' Cup in Texas.
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Invasor was Horse of the Year and champion older male in 2006 when he won the Pimlico Special, Suburban Handicap, Whitney Handicap, and Breeders' Cup Classic.
"You have the Kentucky Derby winner, three Breeders' Cup winners, Dullahan is a three-time graded winner and won one of our more prestigious races, the Pacific Classic, " he said.
He was disqualified on Powerscourt after finishing first in the Arlington Million, and was then criticised by some for committing too early on him in the Breeders' Cup Turf.
Spencer was disqualified on Powerscourt after finishing first in the Arlington Million, and was then criticised by some for committing too early on him in the Breeders' Cup Turf.
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He could come back here for the Dewhurst, America for the Breeders' Cup is a possibility but we'll have to see what fits in but he has now won two Group Ones.
The Breeders' Cup features 14 races in all - 10 Group One races, three Group Twos and one Group Three - and the star attraction in the Classic will be undefeated six-year-old mare Zenyatta.
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Animal Kingdom, the 2011 Derby winner, and two-time Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic winner Royal Delta, along with Dullahan, will attempt to give American-based horses their first World Cup win since 2010, when the track was changed from dirt to a synthetic surface.
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