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Article: A sellout meeting with the air of a giant picnic - but the Grosser Preis is serious business; Paul Haigh joins the beautiful people at Baden-Baden and finds that a British success adds lustre to an already memorable visit.(Sports)
- Article from:
- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2004
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Byline: Paul Haigh
FOR as long as anyone in racing can remember, Clive Brittain has been the great internationalist, the true believer in the dictum that you should never be afraid of one horse anywhere. Or two, or three, or ten come to that.
Yesterday, not for the first time, the cheery buck-toothed Brittain grin beamed out over a foreign course. Yesterday, not for the first time, Clive proved well and truly wrong all those who've ever criticised his long-standing policy of never passing a windmill without having a hefty tilt at it.
Not that he ...