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A fine way to remember sport's greatest fan as we look ahead to a race she loved

The Queen won the St Leger with Dunfermline (left) in her Silver Jubilee year of 1977
The Queen won the St Leger with Dunfermline (left) in her Silver Jubilee year of 1977Credit: S&g

As Ecclesiastes tells us, there is a time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance.

What better way to step away from the national mourning for the Queen, at least for a moment or two, than with an age-old race that gave her one of her most joyous days in the sport that she loved. And adding in four Group 1 races in Ireland plus the Arc trials card at Longchamp makes it an afternoon truly worth waiting for.

Racing paused in Britain for two days after Her Majesty's death out of the huge respect it felt for its greatest supporter and ambassador.

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