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Article: Horse Racing: Sergeant Cecil back for more at a course he can't get enough of; 3.15 GNER DONCASTER CUP.(Sports)
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- The Racing Post (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2006
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Byline: James Willoughby Chief correspondent
"I MEAN, do we have a rosy view of the past?" asks Ron Manager rhetorically in the first series of The Fast Show.
"Cheery milkmen, vicars on bicycles, laughing policemen, clip round the ear?"
It is with no similar leaning to irony that Flat racing recalls its own idealised version of bygone days at York today.
The stayers - those dinosaurs of durability approaching their ice age of commercialism - take centre stage in three important long-distance races, with the venerable Doncaster Cup the obvious highlight.
The ...