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Apprentice Christian Howarth has recently traded the all-blue of Godolphin for the similar blue strip of the Alice Haynes stable after returning from a winter stint in Dubai.
The 3lb claimer is back in the Coral-sponsored kit of his boss Haynes at Kremlin Cottage Stables on Newmarket’s Snailwell Road, where he rides as understudy to Kieran O’Neill.
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