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Hong Kong Racing Tips: Hot King Prawn to sizzle his way to a first Group 1 Hot King Prawn is seeking a first Group 1 victory. PUNTERS are set a poser about the chances of probable favourite Classique Legend in the LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (6.40am) over six furlongs. The ‘Grey Flash’, as he was known in Australia, is the highest rated sprinter on the planet following his runaway success from seven Group 1 winners in the Everest at Randwick back in October. He was subsequently sent to trainer Caspar Fownes to further his career in Hong Kong, but only arrived in the territo...

Classique Legend draws inside for Hong Kong International Sprint Classique Legend wins The Everest. Source: Getty Images. The barrier draw has been conducted for the Group 1 LONGINES Hong Kong International Sprint (1200m) which will be run on Sunday at Sha Tin. This year’s The Everest winner was the last horse of the 14 runners to draw a barrier and the Casper Fownes-trained sprinter will start from barrier one in the $HK 22 million sprint feature. Classique Legend is the $2 favourite to win his first start outside Australia, ahead of the John Size-train...

Average american voter begins to tune in to the election. while there's so much hype around the debates, next guest says we're radically overstating the importance. in the guest spot is john size, associate professor of political science at george washington university and author of the monkey cage. so john, let's have at it. the debates you say really don't matter that much. why not? >> i think there's two reasons. one is just that they're too late. they're not that many undecided voters left and secondly the candidates are usually so well prepared that they pretty much fight to a draw and pa...

Kerry had the really well received first debate performance against bush and then end of september tightens to less than two points and basically a four-point shift to kerry after the first debate. isn't that proof that at least sometimes they can work? >> you can pick a handful of examples but it's rare that the debates are actually a game changer in the sense they take the underdog and make them the front-runner or vice versus and the impact felt to election day. >> john, there's three natural sort of disadvantages that every incumbent president has. it's hard to find the time to prepare for...

graduates toss their caps in the air, a frightening storm moves in. you'll see why they scramble for cover. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room kwoem. president obama took a few questions in the white house briefing room today but in rushing to get out front of the jobs issue, the president stumbled and republicans are already reaping the benefits. let's go straight to jessica yellen standing by with the details. president obama hammered congress, telling them to pass his long stalled jobs bill as a way to cushion the u.s. from the effects of europe's worsening econom...