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Article: Paul Haigh: Don't try to explain Rakti - he defies every theory.(Sports)

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The Racing Post (London, England)
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December 11, 2004
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Byline: Paul Haigh

IT'S QUITE unusual for a trainer to speak so frankly about one of his horses as to describe him as 'acting like a lunatic at the moment,' but Michael Jarvis is a straightforward sort of guy. If in the course of a discussion he has reason to refer to a spade, a spade is what he prefers to call it.

And besides, Rakti is acting like a lunatic. If they made straitjackets for horses, he'd be the first one fitted up.

It's not that he's unique. Nearly all racing stables will have had a Rakti in them at some time. What's unusual is the ...

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