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Fox-Pitt's ‘tough mare scores

BAREFOOT RETREATS BURNHAM MARKET (1) 12–14 April

Edited by Pippa Roome

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Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market (1), Norfolk 12-14 April

“I THINK shock and amazement is what's going around the eventing world – I haven't won an advanced for a very long time,” said William Fox-Pitt after his victory on Amanda Gould's Grafennacht.

The 14-time five-star winner – who only has one top-level horse these days and was never one to rack up numerous one-day wins even in his heyday – admitted that he “got a rocket” from his wife Alice for going too slow when leading at Thoresby.

“And I thought it would be good to get

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