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Fri 04 Apr 2003First Gold bounces back
RACING/Aintree report: Cross-channel entente may not be very cordial at the moment but Thierry Doumen was entitled to a little Gallic shrug of vindication at Liverpool yesterday.
The 22-year-old rider has in the past endured some cuts from British and Irish critics that at the very least contained more than a little ignorance. At worse they bordered on jingoism despite the evidence of three Cheltenham Festival victories.
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