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The Leader Newspaper By Andrew Atkinson Ascot’s meeting on Saturday is expected to go ahead amid the recent postponed meetings, due to the harsh weather conditions that has hit racing this year. “We are a mixture of soft and heavy in places – otherwise we anticipate that all that frost will have come out of the ground. “A combination of melting snow and further rain will inevitably nonetheless make for very testing ground. “It does leave it fairly wet at the moment,”  said clerk of the course Chris Stickels. Ascot’s meeting features the Grade 2 Novices Chase w...

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Short a horse injury ahead of the breeders' cup. let's follow that story with nick watt. 26 deaths since december. any reason why? >> not yet. we're expecting a briefing from track officials here any moment now and right now racing today is going to go ahead. the first race will be off in two and a half hours from now. you mentioned, of course, they did close this track for much of march after a similar spate of horse deaths earlier in the year. 26 now death. listen, horses due at race courses, that's part of the reality, but a couple of real clusters of death have put the spotlight here on to...

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other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. it seems like these men are doing whatever they can to drag this thing out. >> you said it, don. the 9/11 terror suspects have turned the arraignment into a chaotic court appearance. one of the detainees, one of the accused refused to come to court. he had to be hauled in, shackled to a chair. another shocked the courtroom when he shouted out, comparing some of the camp guards here in guantanamo bay to dead libyan leafer, moammar gudoadhafi and suggesting they may try to kill them and make it look like suicide. and khalid she...