Francesca Cumani
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Horse racing presenter. ITV/Channel Ten. Enquiries: @DSEGWorldwide
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When you’ve got ten races to study for tomorrow on
@itvracing
and he won’t leave you alone.
#monstermuncher
#purplemoon
#formstudy
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A Jason Weaver masterclass in water sports is a gift that keeps on giving...
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For every girl out there that’s been told they’re not strong enough or good enough to do something,
@rachaelblackmor
win in the Grand National is for them. 🏆
#FC
#GrandNational
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I love that
@CumaniRacing
gets so much joy out of seeing me dumped by a shetland. Nothing ever changes!
#siblinglove
It shouldn't happen to...a horse racing TV presenter 🔊🙈🤣
@francescacumani
@CumaniRacing
@itvracing
@7horseracing
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Really looking forward to starting this new chapter down under with
@10SportAU
Its no secret how much I love the Melbourne Cup!
We are excited to announce that
@francescacumani
will be joining 10 Sport to co-host this year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival coverage! 👏
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Thanks
@CheltenhamRaces
for an unforgettable 4 days. Thank you to the horses, owners, trainers, jockeys and grooms that provided us with such memorable moments. It was an emotional rollercoaster but I leave Cheltenham feeling very fortunate and proud to be involved in this sport.
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It’s lovely reading all the messages for
@cumani
on the announcement of his retirement. What he has achieved in his career is phenomenal. Good luck
@saracumani
with your new employee at Fittocks Stud 😉
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Time to sharpen the pencils and dust off the microphone! Tune in on Saturday for the start of the British flat season on turf
@DoncasterRaces
on
@itvracing
I promise I won’t wear such high heels this time Jason 😘
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Really brilliant Hollie, well done! Making the utmost of every opportunity 👏
So grateful to have ridden 5 winners today
@WindsorRaces
, thank you to all owners & trainers involved and thanks to everyone for the messages! 🙏🏻😀🍀
@RogerCharlton
@Mick_Channon
, Hughie Morrison ,
@cowellracing
, William Stone
@BlueDiamondStd
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Safe to say leaving Ascot was a lot easier than getting there. What an unbelievable day to be on a racecourse. Bravo
@FrankieDettori
👏
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This is great news for everyone
@itvracing
and for the racing industry that it enjoys so much expose on terrestrial television.
CONFIRMED ✅
We're delighted to announce that
@ITV
will continue as the exclusive free-to-air broadcaster of British horse racing until 2023!
Read more here:
#ITVRacing
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Hear, hear. Couldn’t agree more 👏
Fair play to all the men and women who look after the horses in these treacherous conditions 🌧️🐴
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Very touching reading all the lovely messages after yesterday’s
@SportSJA
award for best sports presenter(s). I’m very fortunate to work with such a brilliant team at
@itvracing
and alongside a good friend and great co-host
@chamberlinsport
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Nice to see old favourite Summerghand this morning
@omeararacing
in his 8th season in training and preparing for his 92nd start!
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It was a truly glorious week
@Goodwood_Races
and presenting the
@itvracing
coverage with
@chamberlinsport
and all the team was a lot of fun. Thanks to all the trainers, owners, jockeys, stable staff and horses that together provided such a wonderful spectacle on the downs.
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This wasn’t just a great moment in racing, this was a great moment in sport. I have to admit to shedding a tear during this interview, the love she has for horses is something I and so many people can relate to. They are the most wonderful animals. Frodon and Bryony, well done.
"He's Pegasus! He has got wings! He's the most incredible battler!"
What a moment for Bryony Frost, achieving dreams here at the
#CheltenhamFestival
@olibellracing
chatted with the winning jocket
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What an honour and a privilege it has been to work with this bunch of supremely talented people
@7horseracing
over the course of the last 10
@FlemingtonVRC
Melbourne Cup Carnivals. Not only have a learnt so much from them but had lots of laughs along the way too!
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13 years ago George and I were about to enter the mounting yard for the
@FlemingtonVRC
Melbourne Cup. Here he is now...
"Every time I get on him, I just smile...there's no better feeling"
@francescacumani
introduces us to George, better known to racing fans as Purple Moon - and shows us the beautiful bond between owner and horse
#DerbyDay
#MelbCupCarnival
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Huge congratulations to
@JosephOBrien2
on winning the Melbourne Cup with Rekindling on his first trip down under. Phenomenal achievement!
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What a win! Well done
@TomMarquand
and the Haggas stable winning the Queen Elizabeth in Sydney this morning. And well done Australian Racing for managing to stage these big days in the current climate.
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That’s some training performance from Gary Moore to get Goshen back to winning ways at Wincanton this afternoon. Congratulations to the team and to Jamie for the ride 👏
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Congratulations to
@itvracing
on winning a BAFTA for coverage of the Grand National 2017. Amazing achievement from the team 👏🍾
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It's lovely hearing so much positive feedback from our
@itvracing
coverage of
@Ascot
. It's a huge team effort from all involved, well done!
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This is brilliant!
Once again, we were lucky enough to capture the conversation between
@winx_horse
and
@HugeBowman
in the great mare's historic fourth Cox Plate victory
#ThatsRacing
🏆🏆🏆🏆
Enjoy!
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What a way to round out the flat season with
@ChampionsSeries
finals day
@Ascot
. Two wins apiece and Group 1 glory for both
@HollieDoyle1
and
@TomMarquand
#newgenerationofchampions
👏🥳🏆
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Getting ready to go on
@itvracing
on Northumberland Plate day
@NewcastleRaces
Join us at 1.30! 🐎💨
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This is how my
@AintreeRaces
Grand National day is starting followed by a 90 minute special
@itvracing
Opening Show on
@ITV4
at 9.30am...How about you?
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Harry succeeding where Mummy failed on
@CumaniRacing
pony George
#butterwouldntmelt
#showingmeup
@WHR
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You know you’re back in Australia when you read a quote like this from
@moodyracingpgm
talking about Winx in the paper 😂
#CoxPlate
#WINX
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Thanks
@ITVSport
for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime to co-host UK flat season racing coverage. Can't wait for 2017!
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Great to hang out with this legend Gailo Chop in Ballarat yesterday. Hopefully he will come back from injury to win the 2019 Cox Plate providing a certain
@winx_horse
isn’t there!
#iownthetipofoneear
#sweetheart
#multiplegroup1winner
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When my 3yo steals the phone.... 😂
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Over 1.2 million people were watching as Tabitha Worsley and Top Wood powered to victory over the Grand National fences in the Foxhunters yesterday. Impossible not to smile along with her. Over 150,000 more than last year tuned into day one of the
@AintreeRaces
festival. 🏇🏼💨 🍾
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Wow
"He's only got days to live... His last dying wish was to come to the races." ❤
This story is truly amazing.
@CWilliamsJockey
explains the story behind the gentleman at the 200m mark in the hospital bed.
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I loved sitting down with Frankie and hearing about not only the good times but also about coming back from the brink of retirement 8 years ago. Catch the whole interview over the next two days on
@itvracing
Frankie Dettori on the highs and lows of his glittering career!
Watch the fascinating two-part interview on Friday and Saturday as
@francescacumani
sits down with Frankie to look over his life and his incredible journey in Racing
Join us tomorrow from 1:30pm on
@ITV
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What a race!! Enable just holds on from a fast finishing Sea of Class. Huge congratulations to everyone associated with both of these fine fillies.
#toomanyfavouritefillies
She's done it 🙌
Enable has won the 2018 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe!
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Oh no, just when we thought the Lion was going to pull through he has been claimed by another bout of colic. A horse that gave so many people so much enjoyment. What sad news for
@Tweenhills
and
@Qatar_Racing
Very sad news that last year's top three-year-old Roaring Lion has died following a battle with colic at Cambridge Stud in New Zealand
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Just over half an hour till we bring you our first broadcast of evening racing on
@itvracing
and an interview with these two...
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Wow, what a ride from
@the_doyler
to win the Gr1 Sir Rupert Clarke stakes down under for Charlie Appleby and Godolphin 👏
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Unreal performance from Khadijah to win the Magnolia Cup
@Goodwood_Races
today! She’s a star and when you think she only sat on a racehorse for the first time two months ago, what an achievement! Can’t wait to see the full documentary
@olibellracing
So proud of you!!
After an amazing performance from the inspirational Khadijah Mellah who won today's Magnolia Cup at Goodwood,
@ITV
have announced a special documentary film telling her story will debut on the channel in autumn.
Here's a sneak preview:
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And I can’t believe they did it!! Right down to the wire, 2 winners from the last 2 runners on the last day of the Aussie season makes it a fabulous 50 for
@CumaniRacing
. Well done 👏👏👏🍾🍾🍾
WOW - we did it!!! 50 winners for
@cumani_racing_aus
this season. Fantastic for everyone who has supported and shown faith in
@cumani_racing_aus
, and I’m incredibly proud of the whole team including
@BOYDIE_23
for riding a winner on his first day back after a nasty injury.
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Awww George!! Here is that big white face now
🗣 "The big white face comes to join in"
Purple Moon, the favourite, rose to the occasion in the 2007 Sky Bet Ebor for
@lucacumani
🏇💨
@francescacumani
@saracumani
Watch My Racing Life with Luca Cumani here >>>
#RacingTVFlashback
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Off to Warrnambool to give Gailo Chop a good luck kiss pre tough assignment in the Cox Plate tomorrow with
@MicrofliteHeli
@7horseracing
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Being part of the
@10SportAU
Melbourne Cup day from home is brilliant but you realise more than ever how its people that make an event come to life. I will miss the roar as the gates crash open.
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Who can resist a gorgeous grey? Urging all girls who love their racing to come and enjoy the ride with us!
Delighted to secure Lot 497 - a Zebedee filly out of 5 time winner Dancing Doll from
@redbanknorth
. She will race in an all female syndicate aiming to win the $500,000 bonus for winning the
@magicmillions
2 year old race in 2020.
#cumaniracing
#horseracing
#magicmillions
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That was some ride from
@patcosgrave
to win the Caulfield Cup on Best Solution. Not afraid to make the most of his horse’s stamina. 👏
Best Solution wins the Caulfield Cup.
Congratulations
@Godolphin
, Saeed bin Suroor and Pat Cosgrave!
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Well done to
@crisfordracing
winning with Cool Exhibit at Nottingham. Exciting to have my first winner as a breeder. Pic below as a foal.
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This guy’s form is so red hot he’s training winners in his sleep. 5 🏆 in the last 10 days 👏
@CumaniRacing
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And what a day to be rejoining
@itvracing
this Saturday! Bumper 10 live races, 8 of them graded races, it’s going to be an absolute racing feast. Join us early on
@ITV4
at 1.15pm
📢British racing is back with a bang! 📢
We're delighted to announce a Jumps Super Saturday:
🔟LIVE races from
@Ascot
,
@haydockraces
,
@wincantonraces
and
@GowranPark1
!
LIVE on ITV4 from the special time of 1.15PM
📺
@ITV4
📅 Sat, 16th Feb
⏰ 1.15PM
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One week today!
Spring racing season has arrived and in just one week Flemington Racecourse’s four-day spectacular returns to
@Channel10AU
.
Check out our lineup with
@Studio10au
,
@theprojecttv
,
@10NewsFirst
and
@TheLoopAu
:
#MelbCupCarnival
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I never thought this could happen...Gailo Chop!!
@OTIRacing
@FlemingtonVRC
Antoine de Watrigant, Ben Melham 👏🐎💨💃🏻
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Taking on the Grand National Practice fences with
@dickyjohnson77
😨🏇🏽
#FC
#GrandNational
@OldGoldRacing
#OldGoldRacing
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I like this one best
@dredvers
@Tweenhills
@Qatar_Racing
#puckerup
#smooches
#kameko
@MelissaAlFahad
@FahadAlthaniQR
Caption competition time!!!
@francescacumani
was lucky enough to get a kiss from Kameko 🐢
@Tweenhills
earlier - but what did he say?! 😘 🤣
@MelissaAlFahad
@FahadAlthaniQR
@Qatar_Racing
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Purple Moon (George) off to
@NewmarketRace
today to meet some fans on 1000 Guineas day. Go and say hi if you’re there preferably with a polo!
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Start your Derby with Oli, Jason, Matt and I on The Opening Show
@itvracing
at 9.30! Previews for the Oaks, the Derby and tomorrow’s Eclipse...what a weekend of racing!!
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When in Yorkshire...
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Mesmerising, could watch it over and over
Something I’d wanted to try and produce for a long time, horses are incredibly special creatures 🐎
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I was lucky enough to grow up in the horse racing industry but im so grateful to everyone who helped me achieve my dream job.
@lindy_maurice
is doing that for anyone who wants a career in the industry now via
@TBredCareers
#ittakesateam
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What am I letting myself in for tonight on
@thefrontbar7
😳
@AndyMaherDFA
, I've been stressed out all week... Does
@francescacumani
know what she's getting into tonight?? She seems a bit too... graceful? eloquent? washed?... for
@thefrontbar7
.
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4 Group 1s on
@ChampionsSeries
finale day
@Ascot
on Saturday preceded by the Everest and the Caulfield Cup down under. What a day of racing across two hemispheres with some serious prize money on offer. Good luck to all those taking part.
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What a star. We are going to miss her.
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Wow
Do you really understand how big a horse's lungs are? This picture is a horse's lungs fully inflated...amazing when you think they are enclosed in a horse's body! Did you know a horse takes in 2 x 5-Gallon buckets of air ever second? Think of how much that really is
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A piece I made a little while ago
@RossdalesVets
with
@M3Media_
and
@Fitzdares
that aired on
@itvracing
today explaining more about fractures in thoroughbreds and hopefully putting to bed a few myths.
A fascinating look inside one of the greatest horse hospitals in the world 🐴👩⚕️
#ITVRacing
|
#JulyFestival
|
@francescacumani
|
@RossdalesVets
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Excellent news! Awesome that we get to enjoy her brilliance on the racecourse for another year. Well done and good luck to connections. 🐎 👑
HUGE BREAKING NEWS📰
ENABLE👑stays in training in 2020, owner Khalid Abdullah has announced 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Thankfully racing goes ahead on day 2
@CheltenhamRaces
despite threat of high winds...so this is how we prepare! In make up with Lauren watching
@itvracing
Opening Show on ITV4 at 9.30. (Who knew lip masks were a thing 🤷♀️😂)
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Back up and running (from 🏡) tomorrow on
@itvracing
🏇🏼🏇🏼
Please join us and let us know how you are enjoying the Group 1 Racing from your home.
We're back TOMORROW with LIVE racing from
@NewmarketRace
@NewcastleRaces
& more 👏
@francescacumani
wants you to get in touch as Racing returns on
@ITV4
and
@ITV
🗣🐴
Send us your pictures, videos and questions using
#ITVRacing
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She’s arrived! Anthemoessa managed to get on a flight from Melbourne overnight. Travelled brilliantly and in great shape.
#MagicMillions
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I’m still buzzing! What a win from a legend of a horse. All the way from the French provinces via the New York, Royal Ascot and Meydan. Pricks his ears and off he goes to Group 1 glory.
What a day!!! Back to back Group 1 wins 👏🏻👏🏻 Gailo Chop wins his second Group 1!!!!
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When yours ears are too tall to fit in the chauffeurs car
@chamberlinsport
@SarahKateByrne
@itvracing
Day 2 of Royal Ascot
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Relieved to see that Charlie still has all his fingers after that chat with his two Arc hopefuls!
Charlie Appleby with some great insight into HURRICANE LANE and ADAYAR ahead of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 🇫🇷
Hurricane Lane certainly likes a polo or two 🤣
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Congratulations
@johnedance
and Jess Dance with the big win in the Matron Stakes. Not afraid to take on Alpha Centauri and so right to drop back to 1m 👏🍾🐎 Briliant!!
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It’s getting very dry but these hot early mornings on the Newmarket heath are so beautiful
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Can’t wait to bring you our first evening meeting on
@itvracing
. Some top quality fields assembled, make sure you tune in!
We have LIVE EVENING RACING coming your way tomorrow from
@Sandownpark
🏇🏇
📺 6:15pm on
@ITV4
!
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Playing quizmaster alongside
@TomGleisner
on
@HYBPA
was a lot of fun. A very quick witted bunch! Thanks for having me
#HYBPA
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Unbelievable performance from Gailo Chop finishing 2nd in Perth today. What an old warrior he is! Well done
@mwracing3638
and John Allen 👏
Amazing run from Gailo. Kay Cee too strong late, but 9kg difference took its toll. Great job
@mwracing3638
and John Allen.
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Popped in to say well done to his dad Galileo for the incredible record set today
#purplemoon
He's done it! 💪
Galileo sets a new world record for individual Group/Grade 1 winners sired as daughter Peaceful becomes his 85th in the Irish 1,000 Guineas
A fitting result as it was in this race in 2006 that Nightime became his first ever top-level winner
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What a morning for the QIPCO
@ChampionsSeries
finale
@Ascot
4 Group 1s, a Group 2 and the richest mile h’cap in Europe and all the stars are coming out to play!!
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All the credit goes to
@vicarage_farm
Adam Kirby for gathering the gear from the weighing room and to all the really kind jockeys who helped out.👏
.
@francescacumani
had a special homely surprise for the Kenyan jockeys on Guineas day… 🇰🇪🥽
#RacingInKenya
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It was such a relief to see Cyrname on his feet after falling at the last at Ascot today. So loved by those around him and the cheer from the crowd when he got up was phenomenal!
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An award nomination for
@chamberlinsport
and I, WOW! We are both so passionate about what we do but it’s a real
@itvracing
team effort. 🤞🏻(don’t want to jump the gun but IF we happen to win I’m keeping the trophy 🤫😜)
🙌 Congratulations to
@chamberlinsport
and
@francescacumani
for their fully deserved
@SportSJA
Awards nominations!
😊 We're also very proud to be recognised alongside such esteemed company for our coverage of
@Ascot
Gold Cup Day
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A day where Champions are made
@Ascot
on
#ChampionsDay
. It was the perfect way to round out Roaring Lion’s career in the UK before he takes up stallion duties
@TweenhillsHub
All class. All heart.
#roaringlion
#championsday
@itvracing
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Team
@CumaniRacing
hard at work sourcing the next champions at
@mmsnippets
sales on the Gold Coast.
#getinvolved
#teamwork
#freelabour
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Should I be worried that this reminds me of conversations with my six-year-old 🙈
🗣 "Any publicity is good publicity, right?"
Nick Kyrgios was not taking the bait when asked about his attire at
#Wimbledon
. 🎣❌
#BBCTennis
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Boss baby!!
The boss is back and first on the agenda is giving
@francescacumani
#CheltenhamFestival
form advice
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Amazing atmosphere at
#championsday
@ChampionsSeries
@Ascot
crowds gathering ahead of the opening ceremony before racing. Join us
@itvracing
on air at 1pm 📺🏇🏼🏆
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Got to have a spin on
@CumaniRacing
Sylpheed this morning on the
@mmsnippets
@GCTurfClub
while strapper Sarah Field recovers from a dislocated shoulder.
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Well done Hayley 👏👏👏
Smiles all round as
@HayleyTurner123
lands the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle for the second year running.
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This little laid back character is an absolute superstar. Back to back wins in Grand National...the first horse to do it since the mighty Red Rum in the 70s
Tiger Roll wins the Randox Health Grand National!
Back-to-back Grand Nationals and a place in history
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Gorgeous!
The softer side of the Hurricane 🤩 💨🌟
#hurricanelane
#charlieappleby
@godolphin
@DarleyEurope
#williambuick
@DoncasterRaces
@CazooUK
#StLeger
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