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The first black Swazi born jockey to ride in the Epsom Derby and Irish star Jamie Spencer, together with our own Bernard Fayd’herbe and Donavan Mansour, are amongst the 13 riders in action at the Champ de Mars for this coming weekend’s Jockeys International.
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