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    Hooligan comes good

    Nov 18, 2021 4 minutes
    By LUCY ELDER

    Dunsmore Racing Club, Dunsmore, Devon

    LOVABLE “hooligan” Southfield Theatre proved not to be underestimated in favour of younger rivals to triumph in style on his seasonal debut.

    Angela Yeoman’s 13-year-old led from flag-fall to dictate the pace of the three-runner mixed open – the first in the new INEOS Grenadier-sponsored series, featuring bumper prize money.

    The King’s Theatre son out-jumped evens favourite Chameron, five years his junior, to win by one-and-a-quarter lengths.

    “I was quite hopeful that with a good round of jumping, he would put [Chameron] under the sword,” said winning jockey Lily Bradstock, riding for trainer mother Sara. “He is still a hooligan at home, but as

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