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‘He was my absolute hero’

WESTON PARK (1) 9-10 April

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Weston Park (1), Shropshire

THE brilliant five-star campaigner and world gold medallist Arctic Soul headed advanced section F. But triumph turned to tragedy when, having finished with ears pricked and full of running, he collapsed and died of a suspected heart attack after Gemma Tattersall had pulled him up.

A direct line descendant of the Darley Arabian and carrying the blood of the Godolphin Arabian and the Byerley Turk in his veins,

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