He played back to a good-length ball and edged to Mark Wagh at first slip after a 170-ball innings which contained 12 fours and two sixes.

BBC: Goodwin hits top gear

The pair flew into a four-length lead by the quarter-mile mark and were able to reduce their rate to a strong paddle and finished the race in a time of eight minutes and 45 seconds.

BBC: Redgrave stars at Henley

He had shown several times in New York, at the Betty Parsons Gallery, when it was home to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, and had corresponded at length with the august art historian Meyer Schapiro.

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