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cored by a short head to Jop
in Pony-Like Screenshots Mon Nov 11, 2019 2:20 pmby chenwen121314 • 609 Posts
Frespanol has erased memories of his last trip to the Sunshine Coast with victory in the open handicap, a race deferred from the Doomben wash-out. Terry Steinbach Jersey .The 1350m-race abandoned on Saturday was added to what was already a 12--race program on Wednesday with many of the runners being prepared for upcoming summer features.Ridden by Jim Byrne, former Sydney-trained Frespanol ($10) scored by a short head to Jopa ($9) on Wednesday with a half length to third-placed Harada Bay ($8).The last time Frespanol headed to the Sunshine Coast in April he was in a float which rolled down an embankment on the Bruce Highway and he spent 40 minutes trapped inside.Frespanol and the three other horses on the truck escaped serious injury but he missed the winter carnival.Trainer Tony Gollan, who is in New Zealand for a horse sale, said by phone the win had come as no surprise and Frespanol had improved with each race this campaign.He was good first-up and then had no luck at all second-up when caught deep, Gollan said.He is a nice horse and he will now run in the Recognition Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday week.After that he will chase the feature races such as the Lough Neagh and Bernborough Stakes in the summer.Gollan said Frespanol owed him a win in a stakes race from his days when the gelding was trained in Sydney.He actually beat me in a stakes race when Gai Waterhouse trained him. My mare Tornado Miss ran second to him in the 2015 Spear Chief Stakes at Doomben, Gollan said.I do think he will be even fitter next time so the stakes race might be soon.Group Two winner Rudy lost no friends when he came from third last to finish fifth. Glen Perkins Twins Jersey . Pence singled in the winning run with no outs in the ninth inning to give the Giants a 7-6 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday. Kirby Puckett Jersey . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. https://www.cheaptwins.com/1992t-kohl-st...rsey-twins.html . Booth picked up 65 caps after making her national team debut in 2002 at the age of 17. She most recently played for Sky Blue FC of the National Womens Soccer League. "It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont.Andy Murray has the arduous task of facing an in-form Rafael Nadal on the treacherous clay courts in the Monte Carlo Masters semi-finals. You can watch the British No 1 take on the 14-time Grand Slam winner on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 3 from 10am as part of a bumper day of tennis action.The morning will begin with Andys brother Jamie in doubles action alongside Bruno Soares against Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo. In the singles, Andy Murrays semi-final against Nadal is scheduled for midday with the second last-four encounter - Gael Monfils v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga - pencilled in for 3.30pm. Andy Murray will look to get only his second ever win over Rafael Nadal on clay when the two meet in the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters Murray will take centre stage, however, with the first big test of the clay court season as he meets the greatest ever player on the red dirt.Nadal has won nine French Open titles and has, so far, used Monte Carlo as the ideal warm-up for this years Roland Garros event.Murray traditionally struggles to adapt from hard courts to clay, so coming up against Nadal will be a monumental ask. Highlights from Andy Murrays quarter-final match against Milos Raonic The world No 2 from Dunblane has a paltry career head-to-head against the Spaniard, having won just six out of 22 matches. Willians Astudillo Twins Jersey. They met in Monte Carlo in 2009 and 2011 with Nadal advancing both times.This week, Murray burst into life with Fridays quarter-final win over Milos Raonic, romping to a 6-2 6-0 win.He had previously been made to scrap to move past Benoit Paire. Impressively, Nadal dumped out world No 4 Stan Wawrinka with a 6-1 6-4 blitz in their quarter-final. Highlights from the quarter-final between Rafael Nadal and Stan Wawrinka The Spaniard hasnt quite reached the heights of his 2008-2013 pomp when he won 46 consecutive games on clay, but nine previous titles in Monte Carlo suggest that Murray enters Saturdays semi-final as the underdog.Watch Murray vs Nadal on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 3 HD from 10am. Also See: ATP schedule Tennis on Sky Murray surges into semi-finals Nadal reaches semi-finals ' ' '
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