What does Donald Trump have in common with Irad Ortiz Jr and the Breeders' Cup?
Donald Trump was not the only one who failed to get the happy ending he was hoping for in the US last Saturday.
It had all been going so well. No, not the soon-to-be-ex-President's campaign for re-election, which ended – to most eyes – when Joe Biden was finally announced the winner four days after the polls closed, but the Breeders' Cup, which has a history almost as varied as the man the secret service may have to evict manually from the White House in January.
The bold ambition of staging a world horseracing championships was paying off spectacularly for most of the day. What a joy it was to see Kevin Ryan and James Fanshawe strike with Glass Slippers and Audarya, while Aidan O'Brien's 1-2-3 in the Mile and Tarnawa's Turf tear-up set the night up perfectly for the Classic to provide the perfect climax to a meeting that had done its darnedest to showcase all that is best in racing.
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