Bolger Achievement Generations In The Making

To breed four 2-year-old stakes winners within a week would be a landmark accomplishment for anyone. For Jim Bolger, however, it merely scratches the surface of what he accomplished the past two Saturdays as a breeder, owner and trainer.

Poetic Flare (Ire) (Dawn Approach {Ire}) got things going on Oct. 17 at Leopardstown with a win in the G3 Killavullan S. Bolger bred not only Poetic Flare but his first two dams and his sire, and raced them all in the white and purple silks of his wife Jackie Bolger, with Dawn Approach having eventually been sold to race in the Godolphin blue.

G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy winner Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) was the highlight of a memorable day on Oct. 24 for the Bolger program, he being another third generation homebred trained by his breeder and by a sire trained and originally owned by Bolger. Mac Swiney, in fact, is a blend of Bolger’s two most successful colts, being by New Approach (who he bought as a yearling) out of a mare by Teofilo (a second-generation homebred).

Mac Swiney’s win followed five minutes on from Gear Up (Ire)‘s victory in the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. That Bolger-bred, who is by Teofilo, was sold as a yearling to trainer Mark Johnston for €52,000. A memorable Saturday was capped by homebred Flying Visit (Ire) (Pride Of Dubai {Aus}) winning the G3 Eyrefield S. at Leopardstown. He is out of another Bolger homebred Teofilo mare.

It is a rare feat indeed for one person to enjoy such continuous success across two professions as notoriously difficult as breeding and training racehorses, but Bolger has done just that over the past 20 years in particular. Teofilo and Soldier of Fortune (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) were both from Galileo’s second crop and raised in the same paddock at Bolger’s Redmondstown Stud. G1 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach was from the first crop of Bolger’s Derby winner New Approach and provided the trainer with his fifth Dewhurst in seven years, all homebreds aside from New Approach, while Trading Leather (Ire) was a Bolger-bred Classic winner by Teofilo. And the program at Redmondstown has turned out plenty of top-class fillies, too, like Pleascach (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), who won the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas in the Bolger colours and the G1 Yorkshire Oaks in the Godolphin blue.

“One of the reasons I have to breed horses is that it’s the best way to get them to train, and when you get a good one you know it isn’t going to be taken away from you,” Bolger explained on Monday shortly after sending out yet another 2-year-old winner, French Fusion (Ire) (Harzand {Ire}), at Galway in his wife’s colours. “There’s great peace of mind with owning them as well because if you do mess one up you don’t have to explain it to anybody. Except my principal owner–but she’s very forgiving.”

Bolger took out his trainers license in the late 1970s, and while simultaneously training a few fillies that went on to be influential broodmares for other owners-the likes of Give Thanks, Flame of Tara and Park Appeal-began building his own broodmare band. One of his early acquisitions was the Northfields mare Amoura, who went through the ring nearly unnoticed at Keeneland November in 1994 and was scooped up by Bolger for $5,000. Eleven years old at the time and in the care of Juddmonte, the unplaced Amoura had had seven foals at the time, five of racing age and one winner.

“I had a very close association with Northfields when I started out,” Bolger said. “I always liked Northfields and his broodmares. This one [Amoura] had a very good tail female line of the Aga Khan’s. Even though she was older at the time I said ‘sure, if I get a couple of foals out of her I might get the makings of a good broodmare.’ Quest For Fame was standing out there [in Kentucky] at the time and I would have known all about him being a Derby winner. It was fortuitous for me that he was standing in America because I wasn’t going to bring Amoura home.”

Amoura’s first Bolger-bred foal was Mac Swiney’s second dam Siamsa (Quest For Fame {GB}), who won twice. Siamsa’s second foal was Halla Siamsa (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}), who gave Bolger the Dewhurst winner Parish Hall (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) as well as his stakes-placed full-siblings Hall Of Fame (Ire) and Siamsaiocht (Ire). Five years later Siamsa produced the G2 Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and G3 Ballysax S. winner and G1 Irish Derby-placed Light Heavy (GB) (Teofilo {Ire}), and the following year his full-sister, Mac Swiney’s dam Halla Na Saoire (Ire), who was Siamsa’s last foal.

Mac Swiney was making his sixth start in the Vertem Futurity Trophy, having beaten the useful Ballydoyle yardstick Wembley (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) when breaking his maiden at second asking and Jessica Harrington’s Cadillac (Ire) (Lope De Vega {Ire}) in the G2 Futurity S. on Aug. 22 at The Curragh. The heavy going and mile trip at Doncaster proved no problem for the chestnut, and Bolger described him as a horse for next year.

“We always felt that he’d improve a nice bit as a 3-year-old because he’ll be able to stretch out further as well,” he said. “I think he’ll stay a mile and a half but we’ll probably start off in one of the Guineas and go from there.”

All going well it would be no surprise to see Mac Swiney line up in a Derby alongside his former studmate Gear Up, who took his record to three from four for Mark Johnston over the heavy Saint-Cloud ground in the mile and a quarter Criterium de Saint-Cloud.

“I was thrilled for Mark Johnston because he has campaigned the horse very well and it was lovely to see him win his Group 1,” Bolger said.

As with Amoura, Gear Up’s dam Gearanai was sourced from Keeneland for $40,000 as a short yearling at the January sale in 2008. She is a granddaughter of the four-time Grade I and Classic winner Dispute (Danzig), and this is a family that has been very good to Bolger in particular this year; Maoineach (Congaree), a great-granddaughter of Dispute from a different branch of the family, provided Bolger with yet another group-winning 2-year-old in August in the form of the G3 Round Tower S. scorer New Treasure (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}). Gearanai supplied the G3 Eyrefield S. winner Guaranteed (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) two years ago and her Teofilo yearling colt topped last month’s Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale when bought by the Hong Kong Jockey Club for ÂŁ325,000. He was consigned by Bolger’s granddaughter Clare Manning’s Boherguy Stud, as was the sale’s second-top lot, a New Approach colt out of Maoineach. Gearanai has a colt foal by Parish Hall (Ire), who Bolger retained after his racing career to cover some of his own mares. Parish Hall, who has his first 2-year-olds this year, won’t have huge numbers to represent him, but it is worth noting what Bolger has done with Vocalised, who he liked enough to use as a private stallion. Parish Hall has 22 foals in his first crop and from three runners has had a winner and one placed.

“I held onto him and he covers some of my mares every year, and hopefully there’s more to come from him,” Bolger said of Parish Hall. “They would be out of lesser mares; I sent him very ordinary mares, but some of them have shown me enough this year to indicate that they’ll probably be fairly good next year.”

Flying Visit brought up the hat trick on a remarkable day for Bolger in the Eyrefield going 1800 metres at Leopardstown. Bolger bought the second dam Six Nations (Danzig), a full-sister to Chief’s Crown, for €52,000 from Goffs November when she was 17, and the second mating that Bolger planned for her produced Flying Visit’s dam Fionnuar (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). Flying Visit is the mare’s fifth foal; she has produced two winners by Pour Moi (Ire) and placed fillies by Vocalised and Intense Focus.

“She was quite good, she won a few races for us and she’s a great-looking mare with plenty of scope,” Bolger said of Fionnuair, adding modestly, “I’m sure she’ll make a good broodmare, but I haven’t done so well mating her. Hopefully I’ll get it right now in the future.”

It was certainly a tip of the cap for Pride Of Dubai to be sent a mare by Bolger for his first Northern Hemisphere book, and the Coolmore sire has obliged with five first-crop stakes winners including Flying Visit. Bolger admitted that while the script has worked out well, Flying Visit was not the result he had planned for with the mating.

“I knew Pride Of Dubai was a fast horse and I was looking for some speed, but I ended up getting a middle distance horse,” Bolger explained. “I’ll take what I got, but it wasn’t what I intended. I probably was hoping to get a filly out of that mare with a good turn of foot that I could keep to go to stud, but anyway, it wasn’t to be but the consolation is alright.”

Flying Visit was, remarkably, making his 10th start in 10 weeks in the Eyrefield. Bolger explained, “he’s not the easiest horse to manage. He’s ridden out every day by the one person. Because he was like that, after he ran the first time he did no more fast work at home. He does everything on the track and it’s working out well for him. He’ll definitely improve for next year and he’ll stay well also.”

By the time an eventful Saturday had passed, the Oct. 17 G3 Killavullan S. must have seemed like a distant memory in the Bolger camp, but indeed it was Poetic Flare who kicked off the entire sequence that day at Leopardstown. Poetic Flare had been a debut winner at Naas on Mar. 23 over Ballydoyle’s last-out Listed Doncaster S. winner Lipizzaner (Uncle Mo), and having not been seen in over six months, finished 10th of 14 in the G1 Dewhurst S. seven days prior to the Killavullan.

“I probably didn’t manage him that well,” Bolger reflected. “He won first time out and then we got locked up with the Covid. At the same time he began to grow. He was only 15.2 when he won his maiden and he has grown 2 1/2 inches since then. So I left him alone all summer but I left him on the easy list too long. Then I had to rush him back a little bit. He needed the run in the Dewhurst so I knew he’d come on a nice bit after that. He’s ready for the big time now.”

Bolger trained Poetic Flare’s third dam Saviour (Majestic Light) for owner/breeder Tom Gentry.

“Tom Gentry was a good friend of mine and he sent me Saviour to train,” he recalled. “I won a couple races with her but she wasn’t very correct and he wasn’t interested in bringing her back to breed from her, so I bought her from him.”

Saviour’s first foal was the listed-winning Graduated (Ire) (Royal Academy) and her third was Elida (Ire) (Royal Academy), who would later foal Maria Lee (Ire) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}), the dam of Poetic Flare and listed winner Glamorous Approach (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}). Those would all be outshone, though, by Saviour’s sixth foal Speirbhean (Ire) (Danehill), who provided Bolger with the champion 2-year-old and dual Group 1 winner Teofilo, who has become so synonymous with the success of his breeder and trainer as evidenced by the past two weekends’ results.

To breed and train four 2-year-old black-type winners in the space of seven days is a truly remarkable accomplishment. For that breeder and trainer to have also developed each of those four families from at least two generations back was likely unheard of before last weekend. When it comes to the development of top-class Thoroughbred families and homebred success, there are few that can claim more accolades than Jim Bolger.

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Teofilo’s Gear Up Game In the Criterium de Saint-Cloud

Bred by Jim Bolger and trained by a Brit who stands comparison in Mark Johnston, Gear Up (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) had all the right credentials on a special afternoon for Redmondstown Stud and duly made all for G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud glory. Tough and resilient when successful in the seven-furlong G3 Acomb S. at York Aug. 19 before finishing fourth in Newmarket’s G2 Royal Lodge S. tackling a mile Sept. 26, the Teme Valley 2 syndicate’s €52,000 Goffs Orby bargain relished this step up to 10 furlongs in testing conditions as James Doyle executed a masterclass from the front. Shaking off the attentions of Ballydoyle’s TDN Rising Star Bolshoi Ballet (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) turning into the straight, the 27-1 shot saw off the non-staying G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine Tiger Tanaka (Ire) (Clodovil {Ire}) and Jessica Marcialis but that was not all. Tackled latterly by Godolphin’s Botanik (Ire) (Golden Horn {GB}), he had to dig deep to prevail but was equal to the task for a short-neck verdict from that rival, with the previously unbeaten 13-10 favourite Makaloun (Fr) (Bated Breath {GB}) 1 3/4 lengths behind in third. “It wasn’t necessarily the plan to make the running, but he was very comfortable there and Franny Norton told me that last time in the Royal Lodge they went very slow and he was caught for speed,” the winning rider explained. “He was still very green turning for home and tried to hang left most of the way up the straight, but it was only inside the last furlong that he was finding his best stride. He’s very tough and courageous, a typical Mark Johnston horse, and he stays well and has now won on all sorts of ground so hopefully he has a bright future.”

On a day when Godolphin just missed in two of the leading contests, the runner-up put up an improved performance and Lisa-Jane Graffard said, “Botanik ran a superb race and we are delighted with him. Mickael Barzalona said that he ran very nicely–he felt that Botanik was very honest and still slightly immature, so he should hopefully progress further next year.” Jean-Claude Rouget said of The Aga Khan’s impressive G3 Prix de Conde winner Makaloun, “It was a different race to what he is used to–he is normally closer to the pace or in front but this time because of the draw we waited and he finished well. He was bumped a few times, so nothing was ideal and as he has had five runs we’ll give him a long break and see where we start off next year.”

Gear Up is a full-brother to Bolger’s G3 Eyrefield S. winner Guaranteed (Ire), with the dam Gearanai (Toccet) being a half-sister to the Argentinian group 3 winner Plainswoman (Arg) (Zensational) and the dam of the G3 Anglesey S. and G3 Tyros S. runner-up Theobald (Ire) also by Teofilo. The third dam is the four-times grade I winner and Kentucky Oaks heroine Dispute (Danzig), whose descendants include the GII Golden Rod S. winner West Coast Belle (Tapit) and the G3 Round Tower S. scorer Maoineach (Congaree) whose 2-year-old colt New Treasure (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}) emulated her success in that Curragh contest this year. Dispute is a full-sister to the GI Champagne S. and GI Cowdin S.-winning sire Adjudicating and a half to the GI Flamingo S.-winning sire Time For a Change (Damascus). Gearanai’s yearling full-brother to the winner topped the recent Tattersalls Ireland September Yearlings Sale @ Newmarket when sold to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for ÂŁ325,000, while she also has a colt foal by Parish Hall (Ire).

Saturday, Saint-Cloud, France
CRITERIUM DE SAINT-CLOUD-G1, €150,000, Saint-Cloud, 10-24, 2yo, c/f, 10fT, 2:21.99, hy.
1–GEAR UP (IRE), 126, c, 2, by Teofilo (Ire)
1st Dam: Gearanai, by Toccet
2nd Dam: Plaintiff, by Seeking the Gold
3rd Dam: Dispute, by Danzig
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€52,000 Ylg ’19 GOFOR). O-Teme Valley 2; B-Jim Bolger (IRE); T-Mark Johnston; J-James Doyle. €85,710. Lifetime Record: GSW-Eng, 4-3-0-0, €123,234. *Full to Guaranteed (Ire), GSW-Ire, $170,221. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Botanik (Ire), 126, c, 2, Golden Horn (GB)–Autumn Lily, by Street Cry (Ire). O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Andre Fabre. €34,290.
3–Makaloun (Fr), 126, c, 2, Bated Breath (GB)–Makana (Fr), by Dalakhani (Ire). O-H H The Aga Khan; B-H H The Aga Khan’s Studs SC (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget. €17,145.
Margins: SNK, 1 3/4, NO. Odds: 27.50, 16.00, 1.30.
Also Ran: Tiger Tanaka (Ire), Bolshoi Ballet (Ire), Sweet Lady (Fr), Best of Lips (Ire). Scratched: Belloccio (Fr). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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New Approach’s Mac Swiney Takes the Futurity Trophy

Saturday was unofficially Jim Bolger day, with his breeding operation excelling with two group 1 successes and a trio of pattern-race wins across three countries. Chief among them was Mac Swiney (Ire) (New Approach {Ire}), who sported the family silks as he carried off an attritional renewal of Doncaster’s G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy. As the ground deteriorated on Town Moor, the race which has so often been a key pointer to the following season’s Classics lost a vital player with Ballydoyle withdrawing the likely favourite Wembley (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). What resulted was a survival-of-the-fittest encounter and the leading pugilist was one of Bolger’s already battle-hardened juveniles as Mac Swiney proved he had the requisite amount of class and stamina combined. Trading at 12-1 having run eighth in The Curragh’s G1 Vincent O’Brien National S. last time, the G2 Futurity S. winner tracked the G3 Autumn S. winner and 6-4 favourite One Ruler (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) as Cobh (Ire) (Kodi Bear {Ire}) pressed on at the front. Apparently booked for a place only as Baradar (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}) took over travelling smoothly passing two out, the chestnut was only halfway through his day’s graft and his travails paid off as he wore down that rival inside the final 200 yards. At the line, he had 3/4 of a length to spare over One Ruler, with the non-staying Baradar fading to be 2 1/4 lengths back in third. “Go back to his Futurity win and put a line through his last run and he was a leading player,” winning rider Kevin Manning said. “When he won the Futurity it was soft, although not as testing at this, and the extra furlong was always going to suit him. He’s a real three-year-old in the making and I think when he steps up in trip next year with another winter under his belt you’ll see the real horse.”

In a feat of foresight which is hardly surprising given that we are talking about Irish racing’s talisman Jim Bolger, the homebred was coming to England to conquer the day before the 100th anniversary of the death by hunger strike of Irish playwright and politician Terence Macswiney. “I must have known he was good back in January when I called him Mac Swiney, as it wouldn’t have been good to name him after such an important Cork man if he wasn’t capable of delivering,” quipped his owner-breeder. “He was one of our outstanding patriots and I’m thrilled for his memory and for his extended family.” Introduced in the seven-furlong Curragh maiden won by TDN Rising Star Hudson River (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) June 28, Mac Swiney was fifth keeping smart company with Wembley ending up third. When they re-engaged over the same course and distance July 18, it was the Bolger representative who held the bragging rights as he dealt Wembley a 1 1/2-length defeat only to flop when ninth in the G3 Tyros S. at Leopardstown Aug. 6. Getting the better of Cadillac (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) when 28-1 for the Futurity back at The Curragh Aug. 22, he was again off piste in the National Sept. 13 but was back on his A-game on his first try at this trip that was always going to prove a perfect fit.

“To use the cliche, he ticks all the boxes and certainly does so after today,” added Bolger, who had just watched the juvenile he also bred but sold, Gear Up (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), win the G1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud. “I was hoping he could win, as he’s been improving steadily over the last six weeks and I thought he’d get through the ground today. I bought the third dam [Amoura (Northfields)] for $4,000 in America after both The Aga Khan and Khalid Abdullah had finished with her. I’ve been regarding him as my Derby horse since he first went to the races and I’m not about to change that opinion. Five minutes earlier, we had another group 1 winner at Saint-Cloud and it is down to the brilliant staff I have both at the farm and at the training centre.”

Inbred 2×3 to Galileo (Ire), Mac Swiney is out of the unraced Halla Na Saoire (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) who is a full-sister to the G2 Derrinstown Derby Trial winner and G1 Irish Derby third Light Heavy (Ire) and a half to Halla Siamsa (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) who produced a trio of black-type performers by Teofilo headed by the surprise G1 Dewhurst S. hero Parish Hall (Ire). The aforementioned Amoura is also the ancestress of the Listed Curragh S. winner An Ghalanta (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who is in turn the dam of this year’s Listed Empress S. winner Time Scale (GB) (Charm Spirit {Ire}). Halla Na Saoire’s as-yet unnamed yearling colt is by Vocalised.

Saturday, Doncater, Britain
VERTEM FUTURITY TROPHY S.-G1, ÂŁ215,000, Doncaster, 10-24, 2yo, 8fT, 1:41.98, hy.
1–MAC SWINEY (IRE), 127, c, 2, by New Approach (Ire)
1st Dam: Halla Na Saoire (Ire), by Teofilo (Ire)
2nd Dam: Siamsa, by Quest for Fame (GB)
3rd Dam: Amoura, by Northfields
1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Mrs J S Bolger; B/T-Jim Bolger; J-Kevin Manning. ÂŁ127,280. Lifetime Record: GSW-Ire, 6-3-0-0, $243,958. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–One Ruler (Ire), 127, c, 2, Dubawi (Ire)–Fintry (Ire), by Shamardal. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charlie Appleby. ÂŁ48,139.
3–Baradar (Ire), 127, c, 2, Muhaarar (GB)–Go Lovely Rose (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). (260,000gns Ylg ’19 TATOCT). O-Amo Racing Ltd; B-Knocktoran Stud (IRE); T-Roger Varian. ÂŁ24,059.
Margins: 3/4, 2 1/4, 1 3/4. Odds: 12.00, 1.50, 9.00.
Also Ran: Cobh (Ire), State of Rest (Ire), Emperor Supreme (Ire), Megallan (GB), King Vega (GB). Scratched: Wembley (Ire). Click for the Racing Post result or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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Record Returns Continue During Tattersalls Ireland Yearling Sale’s Closing Session

Day two of the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale was in some ways a repetition of Day 1 – the session topped again by a colt consigned from Clare Manning's Boherguy Stud, bred by her grandfather Jim Bolger (Lot 260).

The April-born New Approach colt, a full-brother to the Bolger-bred and trained New Treasure, winner of the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes, was bought by Robson Aguiar. He signed for Ebonos at ÂŁ190,000 (US$242,016), purchasing on behalf of Amo Racing and trainer Roger Varian.

There was plenty of interest around the ring and underbidders included Dwayne Woods and Matt Coleman.

Consignor Clare Manning said of her two session-topping colts: “I knew the two of them were lovely individuals. Although they're quite different types, they're both extremely nice individuals in their own ways, and the updates were obviously big boosts. I thought they'd be popular but they've both completely exceeded expectations. They've both really pulled it out of the bag.

“It couldn't have gone any better really. To get one touch like that is unbelievable, never mind two.”

The other six-figure sale in the day two session was ÂŁ155,000 (US$197,426) given for Lot 421, a Grove Stud-consigned colt by Night Of Thunder, also a son of New Approach.

He was one of 15 lots bought over the two days by the father and son team of Peter and Ross Doyle Bloodstock, the sale's leading buyer numerically and by spend. Trainer Stuart Williams was underbidder.

The two-day September Yearling Sale Part I produced a strong and a more-than-satisfactory set of results with its average of €24,145 (US$28,274) on a par with 2019, and its median of  €17,582 (US$20,589) a fall of 12 percent. Four yearlings sold for £150,000 (US$191,070) or more, another record for the September Yearling Sale.

The aggregate dropped by 15 percent to €7,992,107 (US$9,359,123), but the clearance rate was a very healthy 84 percent throughout the two-day sale.

At the conclusion of the September Yearling Sale, Tattersalls Ireland CEO Matt Mitchell commented;

“The venue for the Tattersalls Ireland September Yearling Sale was new, but the fundamentals of the sale remained the same. We had a catalog of quality yearlings catering for all sectors of the market and the clearance rate of 84 percent demonstrates the enduring appeal of the sale, even in these challenging times.

“The obvious highlight was the new record top price of ÂŁ325,000 (US$413,978) for Jim Bolger's outstanding Teofilo colt consigned by his granddaughter Clare Manning and we are delighted that his support of the September Yearling Sale has been so richly rewarded. The feature of the sale has, however, been the depth to the trade from start to finish. We have had a record number of lots sell for ÂŁ150,000 (US$191,070) or more and buyers from throughout Britain and Ireland have been competing with a strong overseas contingent, most notably from Italy.

“Relocating the sale was not an easy decision and we would like to thank the vendors and purchasers, all of whom have contributed to the success of the past two days. The sale has displayed a remarkable resilience under the circumstances and is a tribute to the professionalism and commitment of all concerned.”

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