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Red Dune verified the market buzz with an impressive front-running performance to get a drizzly Newmarket July Festival underway.

A Dublin man who shot his friend with both barrels of a sawn off shotgun and then threw him from his car was jailed for 12 years today.

Darryll Holland stole the show on the final day of Ascot’s Festival meeting when he completed a brilliant near 126-1 treble on Systematic, Peruvian Chief and Scott’s View.