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Fahey: Visor and quick ground can help Birchwood
Corbettsports City Plate (Listed) | 7f, 3yo+ | RUK
Channel 4's cameras squeeze in ten races from Ascot, Newmarket and York, but Chester's £40,000 Listed contest should not be forgotten and it certainly has not escaped the attention of Richard Fahey, who has won three of the last five runnings.
He fields Birchwood, who at this time last year was winning the Group 2 Superlative Stakes at Newmarket's July meeting and showing plenty of promise.
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