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Why This Might Be the Most Open Title Race in Years — Or Not
The case for hope: Wellsford have a spine now, Marlborough have a defence, Aigburth have their talisman back, and Mancunia are one Vasque decision away from a very different summer.
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The case against hope: it is the same case they made last July, and the July before that. Football sells the open race every year because closure does not sell. But if the pieces were ever going to align into a genuine three-horse season, the alignment looks closer this time than it has in a while. Ask me again in October.
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