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'Team Nicholls' out of Ayr Gold Cup
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DAVID 'Dandy' Nicholls has often being labelled the Sprint King,
but the Thirsk trainer was left feeling like the court jester
yesterday after an astonishing blunder left him without a single
runner in next month's Ayr Gold Cup.
Nicholls, who has dominated Scotland's premier sprint by winning
it four times in the past six years, forgot to declare a team of 26
potential entrants before Wednesday's deadline for the six-furlong
contest on 16 September.
Nicholls has become a regular fixture in the winner's enclosure
following recent renewals of the Ayr Gold Cup, and he would have been
fancied to ...
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