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As always, Ireland and France have been quicker off the mark when it comes to the Flat turf season, and Britain joins them this Saturday with the opening meeting at Doncaster, which always provides plenty of interest, not least through the Brocklesby Stakes. This year, fittingly, the first two-year-old race in Britain is run in memory of Bill Turner, whose name was a standing dish in the Brocklesby entries and who died last August at the age of 78. With six victories between 1996 and 2013, Turner holds the record...

With the Brocklesby entries just a matter of hours away from being published, the time has nearly come for us to close the book on Winter Watch for another year. The final instalment to come next week will attempt to wrap up the best of the action that we've witnessed on the all-weather over the past four months or so, highlighting the 10 three-year-olds who have left the most lasting impression and appear ready to run in a Classic trial near you this spring. Before then, however, there's time to...