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LONDON: Royal Ascot witnessed its biggest-priced winner as 150-1 shot Nando Parrado won the Coventry Stakes on Saturday. Trained by Clive Cox, Nando Parrado was steered home by jockey Adam Kirby. "The price was a shock. He is a proper horse and we loved him from the start," Cox said. The previous record was set in 1990 when 100-1 outsider Fox Chapel won the Britannia Stakes. Flashmans Papers was also a 100-1 shot when winning at the iconic meeting in 2008. Frankie Dettori landed a 150-1 treble to finish Royal Ascot, this year run without spectators, as the leading rider. (Reporting by Martyn Herman; Editing by Toby Davis) … [Read more...] about Horse racing: Record goes at Ascot as 150-1 shot comes in

Kindly Share This Story: We need nothing less than a new covenant of hope; in the arduous task of rebuilding our country, we must be ready for the enemies who would want to thwart our efforts at every turn By Obadiah Mailafia T he American diplomat John Campbell observes that Nigeria is always “dancing on the brink”. Constantly tempting fate may be a good plot in a Dostoevskian novel or in a Brechtian drama. But in real life, it can lead to irreversible trauma. Human systems can only take so much. Some people are beating the drums of war today. If there is one war we must avoid at all costs, it is this one. It is easy to fan the embers of hatred. But to experience the horrors of war is a different matter altogether. As a child, I remember how my father, a churchman, harboured a dozen Igbo families in our modest home a few months before the outbreak of war in July 1967. One woman had given birth on the day they arrived. I had never seen … [Read more...] about Men in dark times (2)