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He finished the meeting on a high, too, with victory on the late Lord Weinstock's Islington in the Group One Vodafone Nassau Stakes on the final day.
The 2011 International Peace Day is a chance to consider the stakes of peace in a world moving more quickly every day.
Our natural tendency is to trust others, and for day-to-day, low-stakes interactions, that makes sense.
The Group Two King's Stand Stakes takes place on the opening day of Royal Ascot next Tuesday with the Group One Golden Jubilee Sprint featuring on the fifth and final day's racing on Saturday.
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By amplifying the stakes, the Mexicans are right to hasten that day.
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Qatar went into the match at Doha's Khalifa Stadium knowing that only a win would do, and the stakes were raised when Uzbekistan beat Kuwait in the day's earlier Group A match for a second successive victory.
Uhoomagoo (25-1) gave Kevin Ryan and Neil Callan their first Royal Ascot winner in the day's final race, the Buckingham Palace Stakes.
The big race of the first day of the festival is the Sagitta Jockey Club Stakes, a Group Two race for older horses run over one mile four furlongs.
Utmost Respect, which was ridden by Paul Hannagan, won the day's richest race, the Duke of York Stakes.
His resignation may lower the stakes for him when he appears before the Leveson Inquiry into press standards for a full day of interrogation scheduled for later this month.
Went the Day Well (20-1) has some long odds, but he followed the same path to the Kentucky Derby that trainer Graham Motion set for last year's winner Animal Kingdom: Went the Day Well and Animal Kingdom both won their last prep race, the Spiral Stakes.
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