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SecondMette Mullins is well behind his uncle Willie in terms of the number of Festival winners he has trained, but he has hit a record high in the competition after Cobbetts Cross won the National Hunt Chase on Tuesday 14%, impressive.Opportunity to register for his first Grade 1 Festival Championship noble yeats (3.30)The 2022 National Series champions will line up for the Stayers’ Hurdle on Thursday.Noble Yeats made just one start over hurdles in 2020-21 before moving to the novice chase the following season and ultimately enjoyed a 50-1 success at Aintree.His record over fences also includes a consecutive fourth…

The Georgia judge overseeing the election-interference case against Donald Trump and 14 defendants dismissed six of the charges in the wide-ranging indictment on Wednesday, saying they were not detailed enough.One of the 41 charges Trump and some of the co-defendants in the case were charged with was soliciting officials in Georgia to violate their oath of office. Those charges were dismissed. The other charges in the case against Trump and other defendants remain.The six defendants who had the charge at issue in the case were Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Ray Smith, and Robert Cheeley. In different ways…

IIt’s noon on a hot winter Monday, and Camille Herron is sleeping. She lay on a cot in a tent next to a flat dirt road. Lined with palm trees, white stones and desert grass, it winds for two and a half miles along the edge of a large, olive-green lake. Above the lake rises a steep mountain range covered with brush. It’s one of many resorts in California’s Coachella Valley and is home to the Lululemon FURTHER event, where 10 select women get the chance to run as far as they can over six days.It was the penultimate day,…

Rhaina Cohen was at a party one night when, on the other side of the room, she saw another woman she found magnetic. “In her pastel sleeveless blouse and snug pencil skirt, she had the posture of a dancer, if that dancer was also running a boardroom meeting,” she writes in her book, The Other Significant Others.Soon after they parted that night, she and the woman she refers to only as M began exchanging messages. “Between us was a blizzard of ideas toggling easily between the interpersonal, emotional and intellectual. It took us little time to introduce each other to…

World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz has reached the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open with a straight-sets win over Fabian Maroussan in Indian Wells. The Spaniard, seeking to become the first player since Novak Djokovic in 2016 to defend the title, won 6-3, 6-3 in an hour and a quarter.The 24-year-old Hungarian Marossan has a rare winning record against Alcaraz, who he defeated in their only meeting on the clay courts of Rome last year in one of the shocking results of the season.The Wimbledon champion soon began to seek revenge, winning four straight games from 3-2 down to take…

The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a “consummately honest person” and “must know” what really happened on the night more than 40 years ago when he allegedly sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford, his accuser writes in an eagerly awaited memoir.A research psychologist from northern California, Ford was thrust into the spotlight in September 2018 as Kavanaugh, a Bush aide turned federal judge, became Donald Trump’s second conservative court nominee. Her allegations almost derailed Kavanaugh’s appointment and created headlines around the world.Ford’s memoir, One Way Back, will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.“The fact is,…

HRachael Blackmore was catapulted into racing superstardom at the Cheltenham Festival, the only behind-closed-doors event in the event’s 164-year history, and she knows all about walking into it. The feeling of a winner’s paddock, with an eerie silence all around, the only sound being the sound of horses’ hooves.an exhausted horseHowever, while attendances may have been low at this year’s festival, the popular Irish jockey held off Slade Steel in front of 10 rivals in this year’s opener, the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle. ) kicked home, returning to a more fittingly boisterous diva welcome. While the concerns are understandable, it seems,…

The Conservative party’s biggest donor asked if there was “no room for the Indians” and suggested staff climb on a train roof during a crowded meeting, before saying he made “a lot of jokes about racism”.Frank Hester, who has donated £10m to the Tories in the past year, also said he wanted to find jokes about Malaysian people during a trip to the country, the Guardian can reveal.Hester runs a major healthcare technology firm, the Phoenix Partnership (TPP), which is contracted to work for the NHS and Department of Health and Social Care. As revealed by the Guardian on Monday,…

A professional darts player has been suspended after footage of him appearing to punch his opponent after losing a pub match went viral on social media.The Darts Regulatory Authority has confirmed that PDC world number 82 Adam “The Big Dog” Smithneale will be banned from playing or participating in tournaments while an investigation is carried out into the incident, which took place at the Nuneaton Darts Open at Lucky Break Bar on Saturday .”On 12 March 2024, DRA Chairman Nigel Mawer decided to suspend Adam Smith-Neale from participating in or participating in DRA sanctioned events,” the company said in a…

The Holocaust Survivors’ Foundation USA has attacked The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer for what it describes as his “morally indefensible” Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday.In an open letter published on the organisation’s website, the foundation’s chairman David Schaecter, wrote: “You made a Holocaust movie and won an Oscar. And you are Jewish. Good for you. But it is disgraceful for you to presume to speak for the six million Jews, including one and a half million children, who were murdered solely because of their Jewish identity.”Schaecter added: “You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticise…