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TEMPLEGATE tackles Saturday's action in red-hot form - and hoping the weather allows us to punt some top-class racing. Back a horse by clicking their odds below. The big race (hopefully) is the Betfair Tingle Creek at 3pm. Good luck! Advertisement THE SUN RACING MEMBERS ENCLOSURE The only place to get Templegate's tips first - and at the best prices - is by joining Sun Racing's brilliant Members Enclosure. Sign up now for just £1* to be part of racing's best winning team and get... Four free racing tickets, four times a year - worth £300 Templegate’s daily tips at the BEST prices before anyone else Exclusive access to Templegate's daily NAP Tomorrow’s copy of The Favourite at 9pm today Exclusive insights from top trainer Ben Pauling VIP competitions from Racing Breaks each month New customer offer with Coral Become a member today for just £1* *For the first month then £3 per month thereafter. SIGN UP NOW 18+ Ts and Cs apply. First month membership £1, then £3 per month unless you cancel at least 7 days before your next billing date. For more information contact help@thesun.co.uk ARIZONA CARDINAL (2.07 Aintree, nap) He was the game winner of the Topham in April and looked rusty on his comeback at Chepstow last time. He still looks on a fair weight and has no stamina issues with testing ground his favourite. Gets the nod over fences that he took really well to last time. MONTGOMERY (3.35 Sandown, nb) He looks tailormade for marathons like this, especially if more rain comes as he is best in the mud. He landed wins at Bangor and Leicester last season and Venetia Williams has been sending out winners galore in the past few weeks. He’s gone up the weights but has more to offer. Advertisement WILLMOUNT (2.25 Sandown, treble) He can hit the highs for Nicky Henderson. He was good enough to go off favourite for the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle last time. He picked up an injury during that race which has kept him off for 12 months. He’s gone well fresh and his opening mark of 130 looks on the lenient side if this six-year-old can fulfill his potential. Templegate's TV verdicts SANDOWN Advertisement Most read in Horse Racing Latest TRAVEL CHAOS Trains CANCELLED and do not travel warning issued as Storm Darragh strikes SNOW JOKE Exact time Storm Darragh to smash Scotland with snow bomb Exclusive 'WORRIED ABOUT HER' Stuart Hogg's pregnant partner issued warning by domestic abuse expert HOOPS OUTCAST I’m part of Celtic history but don’t feel welcome at the club any more 1.15 DUBROVNIK HARRY was last seen going close in hot company at Sandown. He sees out this trip strongly and has few miles on the clock. Harry Fry’s hope goes well fresh and enjoys some cut in the ground. Henri The Second looked rusty after a year off last time and wasn’t helped by hitting traffic problems up the straight. The Nicholls runner will come on for that and looks dangerous. West To The Bridge hasn’t won for a while but was just two lengths away at Bangor latest. He’s gone well here before and should be in the mix. Advertisement Up For Parol was a regular on the podium last season and has an each-way shout from his falling mark. 1.50 L’EAU DU SUD couldn’t have done any better since going over fences with an easy debut success at Stratford before an impressive 11-length victory in a Cheltenham Grade 2. He jumped brilliantly there, has lots of pace, and could be going to the very top. Advertisement Down Memory Lane was Grade 1 class over hurdles and looked a natural when scoring by seven lengths on chase debut at Navan last month. He should take a big step up on that. Touch Me Not was impressive at Punchestown just 13 days ago. He jumped well and can’t be ruled out. Rubaud is thrown into the deep end for this chase debut. He has been in fine form over timber and is one to watch for the future. 2.25 Advertisement WILLMOUNT can hit the highs for Nicky Henderson. He was good enough to go off favourite for the Grade 1 Challow Hurdle last time. He picked up an injury during that race which has kept him off for 12 months. He’s gone well fresh and his opening mark of 130 looks on the lenient side if this six-year-old can fulfill his potential. Altobelli has dropped below the mark that saw him hit the podium twice at Ascot last season. He can figure if trainer Harry Fry’s got him wound up. Knickerbockerglory kicked off last season with a game win at Ascot and this may be the time to catch him. Advertisement Nemean Lion was a Grade 2 winner at Wincanton in February and will find this easier than the Grade 1s he’s been contesting. 3.00 JONBON sauntered to victory in this race 12 months ago and can maintain his 100% record at Sandown. He comes here in fine form having scored on comeback at Cheltenham last month and he’s fine on any ground. It will take a huge effort to topple him. Advertisement Last year’s second Boothill looks a big price for the forecast spot. He was less than two lengths off Jonbon in the Schloer last time and a repeat of that would take him into the placings. Edwardstone was third in that race and could get a bit closer with that under his belt. Henry De Bromhead sends over Quilixios who returned with a smooth success at Naas last month. He’ll need to improve on that to beat Jonbon but has solid place claims. 3.35 Advertisement MONTGOMERY looks tailormade for marathons like this, especially if more rain comes as he is best in the mud. He landed wins at Bangor and Leicester last season and Venetia Williams has been sending out winners galore in the past few weeks. He’s gone up the weights but has more to offer. Certainly Red got the job done nicely at Sandown last month and is another who stays all day. He’s off a career-high mark but will be competitive. Unanswered Prayers won the Southern National at Fontwell and a 4lb rise for that should be no problem. This is a stronger contest but he has every chance of making the frame. Advertisement Mr Vango is being targeted at the Welsh National so may need this run on comeback despite conditions being ideal especially if the forecast rain arrives. AINTREE 1.32 RICHMOND LAKE won this race 12 months ago and can follow up off the same handicap mark. He ran well here when fourth on comeback last time and loves soft ground. Advertisement No Risk Des Flos put in a solid effort at Stratford latest and has tumbled down the weights. He’s another who relishes plenty of cut underfoot. Springwell Bay won a Listed contest on return but didn’t stay when third at Cheltenham latest. This trip will suit much better. Dr TJ Eckleburg had plenty left in the tank when scoring at Haydock two weeks ago and can figure again despite a 7lb rise. Grandads Cottage ran well in the Topham but may need this run. Advertisement 2.42 LIAM SWAGGER can keep the James Owen bandwagon rolling. He’s been sending out plenty of hurdles winners who were useful on the Flat and this three-year-old showed his class when scoring in Listed company at Wetherby last time. He likes this trip and has a lot more to come. Static was second to the tip in Yorkshire before more than matching that form when going close in a Cheltenham Grade 2. There won’t be a lot between them again. Advertisement Quantock Hills was a winner in France and landed his first victory on this side of the Channel at Fontwell three weeks ago. This is a fair hike in class but he has more to offer for Warren Greatrex. Melon was a minor winner on the Flat at Haydock in September and this looks a tough contest for his hurdles debut. 3.17 Advertisement CHOCCABLOC won first-up last season and can repeat the feat for Nicky Henderson. He progressed nicely last season and finished with a good second over this trip at Ayr’s Scottish Grand National meeting. He starts handicapping off a fair mark. Getalead has been busy this season, winning three of his past four runs at lesser levels. This trip suits and he gets on well with today’s rival who takes off a handy 7lb. He’ll have to improve but there’s every chance he will. Advertisement Pyramid Place had a fair bit in hand when winning at Kempton last month. He won on his last visit here in May and will be competitive despite going up the weights. Olly Murphy stablemate Tamar Bridge also likes it here and will be fitter for his comeback from two years off at Uttoxeter. Santos Blue loves the mud so the more rain the better for his chances. 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The sighting of Chen Xiao, who is best known for his roles in hit dramas such as "A Love So Beautiful" and "Love Journey," has once again fueled speculation about the state of his relationship with actress Michelle Chen, whom he married in 2016.A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after allegations emerged that Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round. The Constitutional Court’s unprecedented decision — which is final — came after President Klaus Iohannis declassified intelligence on Wednesday that alleged Russia organized thousands of social media accounts to promote Calin Georgescu across platforms such as TikTok and Telegram. The court, without naming Georgescu, said that one of the 13 candidates in the Nov. 24 first round had improperly received “preferential treatment” on social media, distorting the outcome of the vote. Georgescu denounced the verdict as an “officialized coup” and an attack on democracy, as did the second-place finisher, reformist Elena Lasconi of the center-right Save Romania Union party. Despite being an outsider who declared zero campaign spending, Georgescu emerged as the frontrunner who was to face Lasconi in a runoff on Sunday. Some 951 voting stations had already opened abroad on Friday for the runoff for Romania’s large diaspora, but had to be halted. Iohannis said he would remain in office until a new presidential election could be rerun from scratch. On Dec. 1, one week after the first round of the presidential race, Romania also held a parliamentary election, which saw pro-Western parties win the most votes but also gains for far-right nationalists. Iohannis said that once the new government is formed, the date of the new presidential vote would be set. On Wednesday the president had released intelligence files from the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Special Telecommunication Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In a televised statement Friday, Iohannis said he was “deeply concerned” by the contents of the intelligence reports. “Intelligence reports revealed that this candidate’s campaign was supported by a foreign state with interests contrary to Romania’s. These are serious issues,” he said. The Constitutional Court in its published decision cited the illegal use of digital technologies including artificial intelligence, as well as the use of “undeclared sources of funding.” It said one candidate received “preferential treatment on social media platforms, which resulted in the distortion of voters’ expressed will.” Georgescu slammed the verdict as putting “democracy is under attack.” “I have only one pact ... with the Romanian people and God,” he said in a video statement. “We are no longer talking about fairness but rather about a mockery that betrays the principles of democracy ... It is time to show that we are a courageous people who know that the destiny and rights of the Romanian nation are in our hands.” Lasconi also strongly condemned the court’s decision, saying it was “illegal, immoral, and crushes the very essence of democracy” and that the second round should have gone forward. “Whether we like it or not, from a legal and legitimate standpoint, 9 million Romanian citizens, both in the country and the diaspora, expressed their preference for a particular candidate through their votes,” she said. “I know I would have won. And I will win because the Romanian people know I will fight for them, that I will unite them for a better Romania,” she added. Some 9.4 million people — about 52.5% of eligible voters — had cast ballots in the first round in this European Union and NATO member country. The president serves a five-year term and has significant decision-making powers in national security, foreign policy and judicial appointments. Most surveys had predicted the top candidate would be Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu of the ruling center-left Social Democrats. They indicated that second place would be claimed by either Lasconi or the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, George Simion. As the surprising results came in with Georgescu on top, and Lasconi narrowly beating Ciolacu, it plunged the political establishment into turmoil. The same court last week ordered a recount of the first-round votes, which added to the myriad controversies that have engulfed a chaotic election cycle. Following a recount, the court then validated the first-round results on Monday. Many observers have expressed concerns that annulling the vote could trigger civil unrest. The court said Friday that its decision was meant “to restore citizens’ trust in the democratic legitimacy of public authorities, in the legality and fairness of elections.” Simion, of the far-right party, said the development was a “coup d’état in full swing” but urged people not to take to the streets. “We don’t let ourselves be provoked, this system has to fall democratically,” he said. Cristian Andrei, a political consultant based in Bucharest, said the court’s decision amounts to a “crisis mode situation for Romanian democracy.” “In light of the information about the external interference, the massive interference in elections, I think this was not normal but predictable, because it’s not normal times at all, Romania is an uncharted territory,” he told The Associated Press. “The problem is here, do we have the institutions to manage such an interference in the future?” Georgescu’s surprising success left many political observers wondering how most local surveys were so far off, putting him behind at least five other candidates before the vote. Many observers attributed his success to his TikTok account, which now has 6 million likes and 541,000 followers. But some experts suspected Georgescu’s online following was artificially inflated while Romania’s top security body alleged he was given preferential treatment by TikTok over other candidates. In the intelligence release, the secret services alleged that one TikTok user paid more $381,000 (361,000 euros) to other users to promote Georgescu content. Intelligence authorities said information they obtained “revealed an aggressive promotion campaign” to increase and accelerate his popularity. Georgescu, when asked by the AP in an interview Wednesday whether he believes the Chinese-owned TikTok poses a threat to democracy, defended social media platforms. “The most important existing function for promoting free speech and freedom of expression is social media,” he said.
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Japanese officials at Sunday’s ceremony time paid tribute for the first to “all workers” including Korean laborers who died at the mines, without acknowledging they were forced laborers — part of what critics call a persistent policy of whitewashing Japan's history of sexual and labor exploitation before and during the war. The ceremony, supposed to further mend wounds, renewed tensions between the two sides. South Korea boycotted Sunday's memorial service citing unspecified disagreements with Tokyo over the event. “As a resident, I must say (their absence) is very disappointing after all the preparations we made,” said Sado Mayor Ryugo Watanabe. “I wish we could have held the memorial with South Korean attendees.” The Associated Press explains the Sado mines, their history and the controversy. The 16th-century mines on the island of Sado, about the size of the Pacific island of Guam, off the western coast of Niigata prefecture, operated for nearly 400 years, beginning in 1601, and were once the world’s largest gold producer. They closed in 1989. During the Edo period, from 1603 to 1868, the mines supplied gold currency to the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate. Today, the site has been developed into a tourist facility and hiking site where visitors can learn about the changes in mining technology and production methods while looking at the remains of mine shafts and ore dressing facilities. Critics say the Japanese government only highlights the glory of the mines and covers up its use of Korean victims of forced labor and their ordeals. The mines were registered as a cultural heritage site in July after Japan agreed to include an exhibit on the conditions of Korean forced laborers and to hold a memorial service annually after repeated protests from the South Korean government. A few signs have since been erected, indicating former sites of South Korean laborers’ dormitories. A city-operated museum in the area also added a section about Korean laborers, but a private museum attached to the main UNESCO site doesn't mention them at all. At the UNESCO World Heritage Committee July meeting, the Japanese delegate said Tokyo had installed new exhibition material to explain the “severe conditions of (the Korean laborers’) work and to remember their hardship.” Japan also acknowledged that Koreans were made to do more dangerous tasks in the mine shaft, which caused some to die. Those who survived also developed lung diseases and other health problems. Many of them were given meager food rations and nearly no days off and were caught by police if they escaped, historians say. But the Japanese government has refused to admit they were “forced labor.” South Korea had earlier opposed the listing of the site for UNESCO World Heritage on the grounds that the Korean forced laborers used at the mines were missing from the exhibition. South Korea eventually supported the listing after consultations with Japan and Tokyo’s pledge to improve the historical background of the exhibit and to hold a memorial that also includes Koreans. Historians say Japan used hundreds of thousands of Korean laborers, including those forcibly brought from the Korean Peninsula, at Japanese mines and factories to make up for labor shortages because most working-age Japanese men had been sent to battlefronts across Asia and the Pacific. About 1,500 Koreans were forced to work at the Sado mines, according to Yasuto Takeuchi, an expert on Japan’s wartime history, citing wartime Japanese documents. The South Korean government has said it expects Japan to keep its pledge to be truthful to history and to show both sides of the Sado mines. “The controversy surrounding the Sado mines exhibit underscores a deeper problem” of Japan’s failure to face up to its wartime responsibility and its growing “denialism” of its wartime atrocities, Takeuchi said. All workers who died at the Sado mines were honored. That includes hundreds of Korean laborers who worked there during Japan’s 1910-1945 colonization of the Korean Peninsula. At Sunday’s ceremony, four Japanese representatives, including central and local government officials and the head of the organizing group, thanked all mine workers for their sacrifice and mourned for those who died. None offered any apology to Korean forced laborers for the harsh treatment at the mines. Attendants observed a moment of silence for the victims who died at the mines due to accidents and other causes. The ceremony dredged up long-standing frustrations in South Korea. About 100 people, including officials from Japan’s local and central government, as well as South Korean Foreign Ministry officials and the relatives of Korean wartime laborers, were supposed to attend. Because of South Korea's last-minute boycott, more than 20 seats remained vacant. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement Saturday it was impossible to settle the disagreements between both governments before the planned event on Sunday, without specifying what those disagreements were. There has been speculation that the South Korean boycott might have been due to the presence of parliamentary vice minister Akiko Ikuina at Sunday's ceremony. In August 2022, Ikuina reportedly visited Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine , weeks after she was elected as a lawmaker. Japan’s neighbors view Yasukuni, which commemorates 2.5 million war dead including war criminals, as a symbol of Japan’s past militarism. Her visit could have been seen as a sign of a lack of remorse. Some South Koreans criticized the Seoul government for throwing its support behind an event without securing a clear Japanese commitment to highlight the plight of Korean laborers. There were also complaints over South Korea agreeing to pay for the travel expenses of Korean victims’ family members who were invited to attend the ceremony. Critics say Japan’s government has long been reluctant to discuss wartime atrocities. That includes what historians describe as the sexual abuse and enslavement of women across Asia, many of them Koreans who were deceived into providing sex to Japanese soldiers at frontline brothels and euphemistically called “comfort women,” and the Koreans who were mobilized and forced to work in Japan, especially in the final years of World War II. Korean compensation demands for Japanese atrocities during its brutal colonial rule have strained relations between the two Asian neighbors, most recently after a 2018 South Korean Supreme Court ruling ordered Japanese companies to pay damages over their wartime forced labor. Japan’s government has maintained that all wartime compensation issues between the two countries were resolved under the 1965 normalization treaty. Ties between Tokyo and Seoul have improved recently after Washington said their disputes over historical issues hampered crucial security cooperation as China’s threat grows in the region. South Korea’s conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol announced in March 2023 that his country would use a local corporate fund to compensate forced labor victims without demanding Japanese contributions. Japan’s then-Prime Minister Fumio Kishida later expressed sympathy for their suffering during a Seoul visit. Security, business and other ties between the sides have since rapidly resumed. Japan’s whitewashing of wartime atrocities has risen since the 2010s, particularly under the past government of revisionist leader Shinzo Abe . For instance, Japan says the terms “sex slavery” and “forced labor” are inaccurate and insists on the use of highly euphemistic terms such as “comfort women” and “civilian workers” instead. Takeuchi, the historian, said listing Japan’s modern industrial historical sites as a UNESCO World Heritage is a government push to increase tourism. The government, he said, wants “to commercialize sites like the Sado mines by beautifying and justifying their history for Japan’s convenience.” Associated Press writer Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, South Korea contributed to this report.
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