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Air Force on a wing and a prayer in bid to open seasonal account

Air Force Blue: has failed to score in three starts this season
Air Force Blue: has failed to score in three starts this season

4.05 Curragh
Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club Phoenix Sprint Stakes (Group 3) | 3yo and up | 6f | ATR

D-Day has arrived for last year's champion two-year-old Air Force Blue as he bids to belatedly hit winning ways for the campaign, having failed to make any impact in three starts this season.

He disappointed when odds on for the Qipco 2,000 Guineas and again in the Irish equivalent and decision was taken to revert to sprint distances with the son of War Front and the Darley July Cup was chosen as the race in which to start the experiment.

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