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Live Your Dream back on all-weather

Jockey Club Rose Bowl fifth Live Your Dream (Saeed bin Suroor/Kieran Shoemark) goes for a fourth all-weather win in the Listed Floodlit Stakes at Kempton Park, UK, on Monday, 3 November.

Birr Castle stamps class on Grand Prix de Nantes

Birr Castle (Andre Fabre/Augustin Madamet) continued his excellent autumn in the French provinces with a second straight Listed success in the Grand Prix de Nantes on Saturday, 1 November.

Birr Castle toughs it out at Strasbourg

Birr Castle (Andre Fabre/Cristian Demuro) picked up a third Listed victory with a battling display on heavy ground in the Grand Prix Region Grand Est at Strasbourg, France, on Saturday, 27 September.

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