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Preview of the New Year’s racing
POWERFUL: Early Du Lemo (left) and Full Back at Newbury in November 2021

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With six race meetings up and down the country, there is plenty of action to choose from today with the feature meeting at Cheltenham and the big betting race of the day being the New Year’s Day Handicap Chase at 2.00 over an extended two and a half miles.

Funambule Sivola made a cracking comeback when a superb second to First Flow in the Grade One Peterborough at Huntingdon.

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