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Baaeed should be out on the road, showing the racing world how good British horses may well be. But Champions' Day holds it all back

SMALL POND: Baaeed ridden by Ricky Hall on the Newmarket gallops during the Henry Cecil Open Weekend. Pic: Mike Egerton/PA Wire.

British Champions’ Day is billed as the season finale for the Flat season in the UK, with four Group 1 races and millions on offer in prize money that will ultimately decide the British trainers’ championship when it ends at the turn of the year.

It is British Champions’ Day, and the home team has 61 of the 78 runners this afternoon, while 10 Irish trainers have sent 14 horses to battle for the money, but only one French trainer, Francis Graffard, is involved, with three runners in two races.