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Your support makes all the difference.SECOND EMPIRE, who started as second favourite for the Derby but could finish only eighth, returns to action over a mile at the Curragh on Saturday. His trainer, Aidan O'Brien, has paid a pounds 3,750 supplementary entry fee to run the colt in the Desmond Stakes.
Second Empire, who won the Grand Criterium at Longchamp last year has run only twice this season. He was a disappointing third in the Irish 2,000 Guineas before Epsom.
The colt is also one of 12 entries for Sunday's Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville, in which Taiki Shuttle, the mount of Yukio Okabe, represents Japan.
More eastern flavour is added with the booking of the top Hong Kong jockey Stanley Chin for the Andreas Schutz-trained German runner Waky Nao. British interests are represented by the Sussex stakes winner and third Among Men and Lend A Hand, Godolphin's Cape Cross and Allied Forces and the Henry Cecil-trained Porto Foricos.
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