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Australian Jockeys To Undergo Extended Stand-Down Period After Concussion Diagnosis

Jockeys in Victoria, Australia will now be required to stand down for 12 days if diagnosed with a concussion, reports justhorseracing.com.au. The stand down period was increased from the previous seven days on the advice of Racing Victoria doctor Gary Zimmerman.

The 12-day period puts Racing Victoria on par with the Australian Football League.

“We have seen a lot of athletes in the AFL, they want to avoid being diagnosed with concussion because they know there will be an automatic stand-down and they can't play a game the following week,” said Matthew Hyland, chief executive of the Victorian Jockeys' Association. “But you have to hold the athlete in one hand and then you have to hold the medical advice in the other and you have to try and bring it together and arrive at a satisfactory outcome.

“Sometimes you have to take that out of the athlete's hands.”

Read more at justhorseracing.com.au.

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Dying Wish Fulfilled, Racing Fan Will Be Laid To Rest

A racing fan who fulfilled a dying wish by watching racing from his hospital bed on the infield at Morphettville in Adelaide earlier this month has passed away.

Nigel Latham, 58, died on May 3, just two days after ambulance staff granted his request to stop off at the race meeting while he was on his way home to start palliative care.

He saw Craig Williams ride three winners, including a G1 win on Instant Celebrity for which the jockey said Latham had been the inspiration, later handing him his whip as a souvenir.

The story became global viral news.

Latham, a member of the South Australian Jockey Club who owned shares in two horses, was born in Britain and moved to Australia in 2006. He wanted to be laid to rest in his birthplace.

A family statement said: “Nigel's final wish was to come home where his final resting place will be under the shadow of the Malvern Hills. Internment of ashes will be in Great Malvern at a later date when COVID travel restrictions allow.”

The chosen charities in lieu of flowers are the Bob Champion Cancer Trust in the UK and the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group.

This story was reprinted with permission by Horse Racing Planet. Find the original piece and more content here.

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The Weekly Wrap: Trials And Tribulation

Is the Derby picture clearer or murkier after the last week? We probably can't say for sure until after Thursday's Dante S., which may or may not feature Ballydoyle's erstwhile favoured one High Definition (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}).

At the moment, of those currently at 20/1 or shorter in the betting, there's certainly the potential for there to be a good story attached to the winner and, let's face it, the great old race in its first year of Cazoo sponsorship, certainly could do with that.

Who wouldn't love to see the Derby trophy return to Kingsclere 50 years after the great Mill Reef swept from Epsom glory to the Eclipse, the King George & Queen Elizabeth and on to the Arc? Youth Spirit (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) hasn't shown himself to be of Mill Reef's calibre yet but he cornered nicely at Chester to land the Vase, seeing out the extended 1m4f well despite his relatively sprint-orientated bottom line. He doesn't look terribly big, but then neither was Mill Reef.

The same can be said for Third Realm (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who sealed a good week for Roger Varian and his owner/breeder Sheikh Mohammed Obaid when freewheeling down the hill at Lingfield to overthrow the Godolphin favourite Adayar (GB) (Frankel {GB}). It was also a good day for Third Realm's dam Reem Three (GB) (Mark Of Esteem {Ire}), who is compiling quite the record at stud, with the Lingfield Derby Trial winner becoming her fifth black-type performer. Another of them, Cape Byron (GB) (Shamardal), landed a competitive sprint at Haydock on Saturday at the age of seven, having also won last year's G3 Bengough S. for the Varian team.

While Third Realm looks to be on course for Epsom, the trainer's El Drama (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), bought as a yearling for Sheikh Mohammed Obaid for 425,000gns, is more likely to head to the Prix du Jockey Club following his win in the listed Dee S. at Chester.

Varian also saddled the runner-up in the Lingfield Oaks Trial, Save A Forest (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), for the Gredley family, but his big market mover for the Cazoo Oaks last week was the twice-raced Teona (Ire), who was last seen winning a Newcastle maiden in November. Despite the margin of that victory being nine lengths, the Ali Saeed-owned filly must be tearing up the gallops to have been cut to around 5/1 for Epsom even before she steps out for her formal trial in Wednesday's Tattersalls Musidora S. Not only does she have the Derby winners Sea The Stars (Ire) and Authorized (Ire) as her sire and broodmare sire respectively, Teona comes from a family which has already brought her trainer Group 1 success. Her dam Ambivalent (Ire) won the G1 Pretty Polly S. as well as being third to Cirrus Des Aigles (Fr) in the Coronation Cup at Epsom.

Following some lacklustre performances by Ballydoyle representatives in various trials, normal order was restored somewhat at Leopardstown on Sunday, where Aidan O'Brien claimed a record 14th victory in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial. Following the route utilised for his first two Derby winners, the trainer opted for the Ballysax S./Derrinstown trial double for Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) and, emulating his sire Galileo (Ire) in victory, the dark brown colt shot into clear Derby favouritism as quickly as he accelerated away from his rivals off the home turn at Leopardstown. 

He has every right to be at the head of the market following that imperious display but it's worth remembering that O'Brien's three Derby winners in the last four years have been sent of at odds of 40/1, 13/2 and 25/1, and on each occasion he has had at least six runners in the race. There is, then, arguably a case to be made for Urban Sea's female-line descendant Sir Lamorak (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), who could be seen at York on Thursday. 

There's almost no getting away from Urban Sea when it comes to the Classics, and fans of inbreeding to superior mares will appreciate the appearance of Galileo and his fellow Derby winner and half-brother Sea The Stars in the pedigree of the facile winner of the Newmarket S., Mohaafeth (Ire) (Frankel {GB}), making him inbred 3×3 to the bluest of blue hens. He would also be a poignant, posthumous winner for Sheikh Hamdan.

Thrilling Continuity

One mare quickly propelling herself into that rarefied territory with the help of Urban Sea's son Galileo is You'resothrilling (Storm Cat). The sister to Giant's Causeway was not Urban Sea's equal on the racecourse but she was no slouch, winning the G2 Cherry Hinton S. and G3 Swordlestown Stud Sprint S. as a juvenile. On Sunday, she extended the record of her black-type-winning offspring to seven from seven when Joan Of Arc (Ire) became the latest in the G3 Irish 1,000 Guineas Trial and is now likely to attempt to emulate her sister Marvellous (Ire) by winning the Irish 1000 Guineas. 

The 16-year-old You'resothrilling has been mated exclusively with Galileo, but if it ain't broke there's no point trying to fix it. Gleneagles (Ire) followed the mare's first foal, Happily, to become a Classic winner, winning the English and Irish versions of the 2000 Guineas as well as the G1 St James's Palace S. He too has enjoyed a good run of late via his offspring and currently boasts a 33% strike-rate of winners to runners.

Late developer Insinuendo (Ire) landed the G3 Blue Wind S. for Willie McCreery on  only her third start on Saturday, while 3-year-old Eaglefield (Ire) made two quick back-to-back appearances at Gowran Park on Wednesday followed by Leopardstown on Sunday, where he held on for the win for the in-form Jim Bolger stable. So far in May, Gleneagles has also been represented by the listed winner Too Soon To Panic (Ire) as well as the smart G2 Prix Greffulhe winner Baby Rider (Fr). 

Classic Sires

In the year that Dawn Approach (Ire) moved back to stand at the stud where he was born, he is another former 2000 Guineas winner enjoying something of a purple patch. Of course his own Guineas winner Poetic Flare (Ire) has been the highlight and was one of seven winners from just 12 runners in Britain for the stallion in the last fortnight. During that same period in Ireland, he has added the listed winner Lunar Space (Ire) to his record, along with 3-year-old maiden winner Texas Moon (Ire) and juvenile scorer Strapped (Ire).

The 2014 Derby winner Australia (GB) has been enjoying a similarly good run. Mare Australis (Ire), Broome (Ire) and Sir Ron Priestley (GB) combined for a group-race treble on the first weekend of May, while Freedom Of Speech (Ire) was another winning 2-year-old from the Bolger stable last week. 

Sir Ron Priestley is set to make a swift return at York on Friday and is currently favourite for the G2 Yorkshire Cup. A burly horse who is nevertheless light on his feet, he runs in the trailblazing fashion so typical of those from the Mark Johnston stable and it would be no surprise to see him post some bold opposition to Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), not to mention his own half-brother Subjectivist (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), in the top staying races this season.

Follow The Bear

Kodi Bear (Ire) was a smart miler in his day for Clive Cox and owner Olive Shaw and, now at Rathbarry Stud, he is starting to look a good value option for breeders at his current fee of €6,000. During a particularly fruitful spell he has been responsible for the listed-winning fillies Measure Of Magic (Ire) and Mystery Angel (Ire), while Sienna Bonnie (Ire) and Go Bears Go (Ire) have both been impressive winners from his second crop of juveniles in the past week. 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the son of Kodiac (GB) has had some success when crossed with mares by his Rathbarry stud mate Acclamation (GB), and two of his three stakes winners to date are out of mares by Acclamation's sire Royal Applause (GB) and son Dark Angel (Ire). 

That Dark Angel cross features in Mystery Angel, who heads to Wednesday's G3 Musidora S., and in A Pint Of Bear (Ire), who won for the third time on Monday. 

It was also a notable weekend on the international stage for Germany's leading sire Soldier Hollow (GB). A rare foray to Britain for a German runner ended in victory for the Andreas Wohler-trained Axana (Ger) in the G3 Chartwell Fillies' S. at Lingfield. That same day, another daughter of Soldier Hollow, the 3-year-old Reine d'Amour, took the listed Henkel-Stutepreis at Dusseldorf, while on Sunday the veteran son of In The Wings (GB) featured as the broodmare sire of G1 NHK Mile winner Schnell Meister (Ger) (Kingman {GB}) in Japan. The 3-year-old colt is out of Gestut Wittenkindshof's G1 Preis der Diana winner Serienholde (Ger) and was bred by Katsumi Yoshida's Northern Farm. He joins recent stakes winners Waldkonig (GB) and Wirko (Ger) in being a son of Kingman from a German family replete with class and stamina.

Lanwades Goes Global

Lanwades Stud suffered the loss of Leroidesanimaux (Brz) and Archipenko in 2016 and 2017, but the lingering influence of both stallions has been felt recently, particularly in Australia.

On May 1, Wyclif (GB) (Archipenko) won the listed Port Adelaide Cup and that was followed by a stakes double for Leroidesanimaux down under when Le Don De Vie (GB) won the listed Warrnambool Cup on Thursday and Zaaki claimed the G2 Hollinsdale S. at the Gold Coast on Saturday. All three were bred at Lanwades by Kirsten Rausing. 

The breeder has, however, enjoyed black-type success closer to home and in her own colours on consecutive weekends. The G1 Yorkshire Oaks runner-up Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) got her season off on a positive footing by winning the listed Daisy Warwick Fillies' S. at Goodwood, but she was trumped in some style on Saturday when Albaflora (GB) (Muhaarar {GB}) stormed to a seven-length victory in the listed Buckhounds S. The greys are descendants respectively of the Group 1-winning Alzao full-sisters Albanova (GB) and Alborada (GB).

Albaflora was not the only winner for the family and Rausing on Saturday as her 3-year-old Ralph Beckett stable-mate Aleas (GB) (Archipenko) posted his third consecutive win at Haydock in just four starts, and by a similarly impressive margin. 

We Must Do Better

The TDN team in New Jersey will keep us abreast of the saga of the latest failed drug test for a Bob Baffert runner. That it was Medina Spirit (Protonico) in America's biggest race of all, and a result which had provided a first major success for a significant new owner to the sport, not to mention the thrill of a lifetime for the horse's small breeder, only makes this story even sorrier.

Racing is in trouble all around the world, and every trainer, owner and breeder is beholden to maintain the highest standards of welfare at whatever level of the sport at which they participate, even if that means resting a horse rather than reaching for the corticosteroids to perform permitted veterinary procedures. In fact, especially so. 

Without the horses, racing is nothing. If we continue to allow situations which appear to show horses being abused in the name of our entertainment, then we will have nothing, and that is all that we deserve. 

Clutching at straws in the maelstrom of this latest bad-news incident for racing, the one positive aspect is the loyalty shown by Medina Spirit's owner Amr Zedan to the trainer in the aftermath of Sunday's revelations. He ended his verbal show of support for Baffert with the phlegmatic line, “This, too, shall pass.”

It not only shows a temperament which looks ideally suited to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune which racing can often throw at its participants, but a sense of loyalty which is all too often missing in the sport. Let's hope it doesn't turn out to be misplaced.

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The Weekly Wrap: Pure Poetry

Master horseman Jim Bolger may have been ensconced in Ireland during this weekend's Guineas Festival, but his influence was felt far and wide across the Rowley Mile.

The fact that Bolger bred, trained and raced the 2000 Guineas winner Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire})-in addition to the small feat of breeding his sire and first two dams and training his grandsire and third dam-has been well documented in the following days. But Bolger's fingerprints were likewise on the G1 1000 Guineas the next day: he had trained the winner Mother Earth (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire})'s dam Many Colours (Ire) (Green Desert) for Godolphin, putting a foundation of four wins from 10 starts, including the Listed Dance Design S., on her before she was transferred to Saeed bin Suroor for a Dubai campaign. After producing two winners from her first five foals, Many Colours was sent through the ring at the 2016 Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale in foal to Night Of Thunder (Ire), where she was scooped up by the Wallace family's Grenane House Stud for €50,000. She will be worth considerably more now, with that resulting Night Of Thunder filly, Night Colours (Ire), having won the G2 Premio Dormello and the mare's next foal being Mother Earth. Many Colours has a yearling filly by Sioux Nation and a colt foal who is a full-brother to Mother Earth.

It shouldn't be overlooked either, that in addition to the dam, Bolger also trained the trainer of Mother Earth, Aidan O'Brien having spent his formative years in Bolger's employ.

Last October, when Bolger bred four 2-year-old stakes winners (including two Group 1 winners) in the space of a week, and trained and owned three of them, and three of their sires and all of their dams, it was rightly hailed as a remarkable accomplishment. It would take some deep digging into the record books to know where that feat rates in history, but for the 2000 Guineas it is a bit easier to ascertain. You have to go back to the late 1800s to find the last time an individual trained their own horse to win the 2000 Guineas, and it happened four times between 1823 and 1872. Complete records on breeders for the time are difficult to track down, but we do know that in 1844 John Barnham Day bred, trained and owned 2000 Guineas winner The Ugly Buck. We do not know whether Day bred The Ugly Buck's sire and first two dams! In any case, the owner/breeder/trainer trifecta hasn't happened in the Guineas since at least the mid 1800s. Bolger himself would have accomplished it eight years earlier with Poetic Flare's sire Dawn Approach had he not sold his colt to Godolphin late in his 2-year-old season, but that association-which also saw Dawn Approach's sire New Approach (Ire) change silks prior to winning the 2008 Derby–has been mutually beneficial. Bolger, who always seems to know exactly what he has, was surely crafting a return to the Rowley Mile in his own silks before the ink was dry on the Dawn Approach deal, with the breeding rights he had retained. Meanwhile, Bolger has continued to reap the rewards of another branch of the family: Poetic Flare's third dam Saviour (Majestic Light)-who Bolger trained for Tom Gentry before buying her privately from her breeder-is the second dam of the Bolger-bred Teofilo (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), who like Dawn Approach and New Approach won the Dewhurst before going to stud at Darley.

Though he has supplied 10 European stakes winners from his first four crops of racing age, Dawn Approach, prior to Saturday, simply hadn't taken off at stud in the fashion one might have hoped for from a champion 2-year-old and Guineas winner. After covering 32 mares at Kildangan Stud in 2020-most of which were Bolger's anyway–he was deemed surplus to requirements on the Darley roster. No bother. Bolger took Dawn Approach back to his Redmondstown Stud for 2021, where he has entertained Bolger's own broodmares, and it is likely a few others will be knocking on the door. Poetic Flare aside, Dawn Approach has made a productive start to the turf season: his three runners in Britain on Saturday were all winners; 3-year-old Lunar Space (Ire) won the Listed Tetrarch S. on Monday for-you guessed it-owner/breeder/trainer Jim Bolger; and he had three other winners and four placegetters last week. Dawn Approach is the first 2000 Guineas winner to sire a winner of that Classic since 1984 victor El Gran Senor provided the 1989 winner Rodrigo De Triano, both campaigned by Robert Sangster.

Rock Solid

Poetic Flare's sire wasn't his only family member who made a statement over the weekend. We highlighted the accomplishments of Coolmore's elder statesman Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire) in this space last week on the back of his Rocky Sky (Ire) winning the Listed Salsabil S., and if this weekend's results are anything to go by it looks as if the genes of the seven-time Group 1 winner could be enjoying a renaissance. Rock Of Gibraltar was the damsire of three group winners this weekend: in addition to Poetic Flare, daughters of the son of Danehill produced the Aga Khan's Ebaiyra (Distorted Humor), who won her third group race in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix Allez France; and Lambo (Ger) (Protectionist {Ger}), who became the first stakes winner for his sire in the G3 Bavarian Classic. The Bolger bred, owned and trained 2-year-old filly Missing Matron (Ire) (Vocalised), out of a full-sister to Poetic Flare's dam, picked up black-type on Monday when finishing third in The Curragh's Listed First Flier S. At 22, Rock Of Gibraltar is this year available for his lowest-ever fee of €5,000, but despite the dip his numbers have held steady: he sired 12 stakes winners in 2020 and his 2017 crop, his 4-year-olds of 2021, has included six stakes winners-his third-best crop yet.

Poetic Flare will be the last Bolger-bred foal out of his dam Maria Lee (Ire); Bolger sold her for €65,000 at Goffs November in 2018 to Clarecastle Stud, whose David O'Loughlin-also director of sales at Coolmore–said the Rock Of Gibraltar factor was key to the then-11-year-old mare's appeal.

“Firstly, she was a daughter of a stallion that we really rate, Rock Of Gibraltar,” he said. “With Poetic Flare winning on Saturday and Kameko taking the race last year, his daughters have now produced the winner of the 2000 Guineas two years running. She was also out of a mare by Royal Academy, a stallion I was lucky to be involved with through my work for Coolmore. Her first foal [Glamorous Approach] was a dual listed winner and had been sold for €280,000 as a breeding prospect earlier that year; we believed there may be a fair bit of upside to her.”

“The first foal [Maria Lee] produced for us was a colt by Dawn Approach, a full-brother to Poetic Flare. We sold him to Jim Bolger's granddaughter Clare Manning as a foal and he is now a 2-year-old named Frazil. We then bred her to U S Navy Flag, a champion 2-year-old like Dawn Approach. The resultant foal has developed into a lovely yearling. We look forward to offering her later on this year. We then bred her to another Group 1 winning 2-year-old in Magna Grecia. She produced a colt foal by him the other day. We are really delighted with him. We currently are discussing who to breed her back to and it's definitely not out of the question that she may return to Magna Grecia off the strength of her foal.”

Zoffany Much Missed

While Team Coolmore is surely enjoying a sense of pride concerning Rock Of Gibraltar, Zoffany's good weekend had a bittersweet tone to it, with the son of Dansili (GB)'s premature loss at just 13 in January felt more keenly than ever. In addition to Mother Earth's Classic win, the 5-year-old Zofelle (Ire), who was picked up by Stephen Hillen for 27,000gns from the Peter Magnier dispersal at Tattersalls July in 2019 and later sold privately to Scott Heider, was beaten three-quarters of a length when third in Saturday's GII Distaff Turf Mile S. on the Kentucky Derby undercard. The winner was Blowout (GB), Dansili's daughter of the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches winner Beauty Parlour (GB) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) who had cost Peter Brant €450,000 as a foal at the Wildenstein Dispersal in 2016.

Minaun (Ire), a member of Mother Earth's crop, meanwhile, marked herself as one to watch with an eye-catching local debut at Belmont Park on Friday for trainer Chad Brown. Bred by Sir Edmund Loder-whose Bellosa (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}) was one of the more impressive debutantes of the Craven meeting-Minaun was an €8,000 Goffs Sportsmans yearling who broke her maiden in the G3 Marble Hill S. last summer for Henry De Bromhead before being sold privately to American owners.

Zoffany wasn't the only son of Dansili to enjoy a productive weekend: Bated Breath (GB) bolstered his strong American record with new graded stakes winner Gift List (GB), a 23,000gns yearling initially trained by Karl Burke who won Churchill's GII Edgewood S. by 4 1/2 lengths in her second American outing. She will doubtless soon have the opportunity to join Viadera (GB) as a Grade I winner for Bated Breath. Bated Breath's Banstead Manor barnmate Kingman (GB) had a Grade I winner on the same card, with Klaravich Stables's October Book 1 find Domestic Spending (GB) (Kingman {GB}) sharing the spoils in the Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic with Colonel Liam (Liam's Map).

Australia (GB) was another sire to make his mark over the weekend with a group winner each in Britain, Ireland and France, all of which could make their marks in the top middle-distance races during the summer. Sir Ron Priestley (GB) got things going with a comfortable score in Saturday's G2 Jockey Club S. at Newmarket, and the 2019 G1 St Leger-placed 5-year-old looks set to continue his comeback after missing all of 2020 in the G2 Hardwicke S. at Royal Ascot. The 4-year-old Mare Australis (GB) became Australia's second Group 1 winner-joining last year's Leger scorer Galileo Chrome (Ire)-when taking ParisLongchamp's G1 Prix Ganay on Sunday, and his longterm goal is the G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Broome (Ire) has to be one of the most accomplished horses of the season thus far; he made it three stakes wins on the bounce when taking Monday's 10-furlong G2 Mooresbridge S. at The Curragh and is surely Group 1-bound sooner rather than later.

Cup Protocols Tightened

Speaking of Australia, the horse's namesake was in the headlines last week when it was announced that significant new health and safety measures would be implemented in particular for international horses looking to compete at the Melbourne Spring Carnival. Prompted by the high-profile death of Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) during the running of last year's Cup, Racing Victoria commissioned a fatality report as well as a review of injuries sustained by international horses both during the Melbourne Cup and at their quarantine station, the Werribee International Horse Centre, since 2010. That is because, unfortunately, Anthony Van Dyck's breakdown was not an isolated incident. While a locally-trained runner has not died during the Cup for 42 years, the last eight years have seen six international horses break down during the Cup, and three others sustain fatal injuries at Werribee. Most of those were from European stables.

RV's review was released last week, with 41 of the 44 recommendations within set to be implemented. All Cup runners-local or international-for the first time will undergo a CT scan of their distal limbs pre-race and will be subject to an additional veterinary inspection the day before the race, but that is where the paths diverge. International horses aspiring to compete in the carnival will now be required to undergo a full-body scintigraphy and CT/MRI of their distal limbs before entering quarantine. International horses that have had a previous fracture or orthopedic surgery will be excluded from the carnival. An additional vet check by an RV-approved veterinarian will be required before the horse boards the plane, and the number of international runners at Werribee will be capped at 24; the uncapped peak was 42 in 2018. Those that do make it over will only be allowed to run once before the Cup.

The changes were met by almost universal disappointment among European trainers, who expressed understanding that something had to be done, but disappointment nonetheless at the severity of the new measures. There is fear that the difficulty and expense of running a foreign horse at the carnival may mean that even more middle distance runners and marathoners are sold abroad even earlier in their careers. There is sadness that The Race That Stops A Nation, which has become an international treasure since the pioneering Dermot Weld won it with Vintage Crop in 1993, may shrink back to a colonial event once again. The recommendations in the report are based on educated guesses, but as it usually goes with horses, no one really knows why international horses are dying at such a disproportionate rate to locals at the spring carnival. Yes, the measures seem in some cases extreme, but they might be what is needed to pull the Cup back from the public confidence crisis it is embroiled in.

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