Racing: Capone strikes again
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Your support makes all the difference.THE FRENCH steeplechaser Al Capone II created history at Auteuil yesterday when winning the pounds 86,114 Prix La Haye Jousselin for the seventh consecutive season. The Bernard Secly-trained 11-year-old, sent off the 1-2 favourite, captured the Grade One event by three-quarters of a length under Jean-Yves Beaurain.
Al Capone II's 25th career victory saw him become the first horse in French racing history to win the same race seven times on the trot. He is a full-brother to the 1994 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner The Fellow, himself a winner of the Prix La Haye Jousselin in 1990.
Graham Bradley continues his quest to end his riding career on a high note after failure at Down Royal on Saturday. The jockey, who has said he will retire after riding another winner, is down to partner a number of horses this week including Senor El Betrutti in a handicap hurdle at Newbury tomorrow.
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