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Piere wins the 1996 Gr1 Rothmans July on London News (photo: Gold Circle)

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It wouldn’t be overstating things that London News record-breaking victory in Hong Kong’s Gr1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in 1997, was as big an event for South African racegoers, as the Springboks’ World Cup victory was in 1995

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