Departing took his first tour of Pimlico on Thursday morning in a gallop around the track.

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With an on-site equestrian center, horse-lovers can take a lesson in the school or go for a gallop around the estate.

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We get flying dragons, a breathless opening sequence in which Gandalf (Ian McKellen) plummets down a belching abyss, and Shadowfax, a flawless white horse who will gallop in from nowhere, though only in slow-motion.

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"They get to gallop on the grass in a straight line instead of getting chewed up on curving U.S. tracks, " says Stuart.

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"I knew there wasn't a lot left in Sir Rembrandt and that Bindaree could gallop home, " said Llewellyn.

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There are books that gallop you through a landscape of vivid anecdotes in a quest to turn five insights or seven habits or 10 lessons into a grand theory about how things should work.

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It seems unlikely that house prices can continue their recent gallop, and in most countries there is little room for a further big fall in interest rates.

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Fed by Thomas Leuluai, Tomkins' stunning burst made it and, with Leuluai involved for a second time, it was Paul Deacon who slipped in Gleeson to gallop clear under the posts for his second try of the night and his 15th of the campaign.

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Having fallen on hard times, he was living down the hill in Kentish Town, then a low-lying, poor village between London and Hampstead which the rich preferred to gallop through as fast as possible.

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Specifically, a road that runs across the Aintree racetrack close to the starting line means that Grand National horses face a two-furlong gallop up to the first fence, the longest approach of any jumps race in Britain.

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