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Record Priced Proisir Wins at Cambridge

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Record Priced Proisir Wins at Cambridge

Roger James and Robert Wellwood's three-year-old Prowess won the Cambridge Equine Hospital (1300m) on Wednesday. The daughter of Proisir won on debut in her only two-years-of-age outing back in April. She is nominated for both the Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai 50th New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), and the gr. 1 Barneswood Farm 50st New Zealander 1000 Guines ( 1600m). She's $4.50 second favourite for the latter. Well Woodwood bought her for $230,000 from Hallmark Stud.

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