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Today's news

• TITLE TALK: Tom Scudamore reckons Richard Johnson should not give up on retaining his title despite breaking his arm as he pointed his father Peter winning the 1990/91 title after breaking his leg in November but still catching Richard Dunwoody after missing two months.

• ROUND THREE: Apple's Jade tries to best Benie Des Dieux for the first time in three meetings as they contest the Grade 2 John Mulhern Galmoy Hurdle at Gowran Park.

• TIZZARD FIRST: Colin Tizzard had his first winner on the Flat on Wednesday and revealed he is hungry for more.

• TRIPLE DEAD-HEAT:Enable, Crystal Ocean and Waldgeist have shared 2019 world champion racehorse honours with the joint-lowest rating since rankings began more than four decades ago.

• WORST EVER:French Derby winner Sottsass, third to Waldgeist and Enable in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, has been rated 123 making him the worst three-year-old champion ever recorded.

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Today's meetings

**STAR MEETING**
Gowran Park (first race 12.45)
Willie Mullins, trailing Gordon Elliott by nearly €300,000 in the trainers' title despite each having sent out 128 winners this season, bids to knock a hole in that deficit with an eighth win in the €100,000 Goffs Thyestes Handicap Chase (3.00). Read the preview here.
Going Soft, heavy in places
SPOTLIGHT TIP: Moyhenna (3.00)

Fakenham (12.25)
Going Good to soft, soft in places
Distances 12.25 & 2.35 +123yds, 12.55 & 3.45 +102yds, 1.25 +98yds and 2.00 & 3.10 +90yds

Southwell (AW) (12.40)
Going Standard to slow

Wetherby (1.05)
Going Soft
Distances 1.05 & 3.55 +168yds, 1.35 +270yds, 2.10 +324yds, 2.45 +336yds and 3.20 +264yds

Newcastle (AW) (4.30)
Going Standard

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Today's tips

Keith Melrose's top tip

The Flying Sofa (1.25 Fakenham)

Has generally kept good company this season, running well without winning. Drops markedly in grade now.
Keith Melrose

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Today's video

Check out Envoi Allen's sire Muhtathir, who belies his 25 years, at his French stud and hear what the stud owner has to say about the stallion.

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