The Rocket Racing League plans to pair off high-powered rocket planes in a high-speed, 3-D chase through the skies--think NASCAR meets Star Wars.

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Jockey Paul Townend scored a third win with Golden Silver in the Hilly Way Chase, but Mikael D'Haguenet fell at the last in the Drinmore Novice Chase.

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Also, the unseasonably cold and rainy weather in the Phoenix area forced all but one of the six first round Pool D games to be played under the retractable roof at Chase Field.

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