In 1990, Poindexter bought Cibolo Creek Ranch, a 30, 000-acre spread near Big Bend National Park in west Texas.

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Once, he spent twenty-two days walking across Texas with nothing but a bedroll, a flashlight, and a rifle, from Big Bend, in the west, to Houston, where he was going to deliver a paper at a biology conference.

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The first Bollywood acting school, the Actor Prepares academy in Ealing, west London, which was founded by Bollywood actor Anupam Kher of Bend It Like Beckham fame, opened its doors back in 2008.

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Given the testing conditions at the West Sussex course (several horses had already come a cropper around the famously tight right-hand bend), this was never going to be a procession on the scale of the 11-length drubbing Frankel handed out at Royal Ascot back in June.

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