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Could speedily bred Aesop's Fables be the joker in the Dewhurst pack?
Saturday: 3.00 Newmarket
Darley Dewhurst Stakes (Group 1) | 7f | 2yo | ITV/RTV
The Dewhurst Stakes arguably edges the Curragh's National Stakes as the leading juvenile race in Britain or Ireland, and six of the last seven winners were subsequently crowned Champion Two-Year-Old Colt at the end-of-season Cartier Awards ceremony.
Future champions are established here and this race will shed some much-needed light on the pecking order for next season's Classic crop.
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