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Deauville repeat firmly on the radar for Lazzat
Deauville repeat firmly on the radar for Lazzat

The Herald Scotland

time4 days ago

  • Sport
  • The Herald Scotland

Deauville repeat firmly on the radar for Lazzat

His next port of call is likely to be the Deauville feature, a Group One he won by an impressive three lengths last season. 'We were delighted with him at Ascot, that was a very serious performance,' said Richard Brown, racing manager to Wathnan. 'He probably had a hard enough race, they always do at that level, so we said we'd give him a bit of a chance to give him a bit of a wind down and then wind him back up again. 'His next run will be in the Prix Maurice de Gheest and Jerome's delighted with him, he came out of the race very well. 'We could have brought him back quicker if we'd wanted to, but we just thought we'd give him the chance now to be a fresh horse going into the autumn. 'We want to look after him, he's a multiple Group One winner and he's clearly a very high-class animal. 'We'll race him with his long-term future in mind and hope he can be around for the next few years.'

They came here to bomb. They returned here to live.
They came here to bomb. They returned here to live.

The Hill

time11-07-2025

  • General
  • The Hill

They came here to bomb. They returned here to live.

Da Nang, Vietnam — Richard Brown hadn't planned on crying by the side of a Vietnamese road. He had come back to Da Nang, where he had once loaded bombs bound for targets across Vietnam, expecting anger, hatred, maybe even violence. Instead, during his first week back, a local motorbike driver grabbed his hand, looked him in the eye and said: 'I want to thank you and your country for sending so many boys here to come and die and help my country be free.' Then the man walked away, leaving Richard alone on the roadside to weep. 'I had one experience like this after another,' Richard told me, sitting near the old Chu Lai airbase where he had spent a year as a kid from Boston — 5'4″, 115 pounds, a former Hells Angels drug-runner trying to dodge jail by signing up with the Marines. On his first day in Vietnam during the war, he went drinking with some new friends. 'Then on the way back, someone pulls out a joint,' he said. 'And that's the last thing I remember until I got on the plane to come home.' He spent his tour as a 'bomb humper,' loading F-4s with napalm and rockets. 'We were more dangerous to ourselves than anything the Vietnamese could throw at us.' When the war ended, Richard went home, but nobody asked him about it. 'Nobody wanted to know what it was like.' He became an aircraft mechanic, an FAA supervisor, and then, decades later, found himself standing at the Vietnamese consulate window in California 'with fear in my heart,' he said. 'I figured I'd be rejected or yelled at… but I filled out the visa application with my shaky hand and stuck it through the window. For 25 bucks, I got it a week later.' My trip to Hanoi came just after Reunification Day, Vietnam's victory celebration in what is sometimes referred to as the American war of aggression. The red flags and old slogans were everywhere. A few people spoke of it almost apologetically, as if they pitied me for being reminded of my country's catastrophic defeat. Americans prefer our victories — Normandy, Desert Storm. The wars we lose, we bury. But for a few hundred men scattered from Hanoi to Da Nang to Ho Chi Minh City, burying it was not enough. So they came back. Da Nang makes sense for many of these men. It was often their first and last stop in Vietnam — the place they landed and flew out from. Tens of thousands of U.S. veterans have returned since the 1990s, mostly for short visits to see the places where they once fought. A few hundred stayed. Da Nang — once a major airbase, now a coastal city with condos, coffee shops, and pristine beaches — is consistently ranked among Vietnam's most livable cities. It holds symbolic weight: a hub for Agent Orange, for bombs and final goodbyes. Richard says he feels more at home here than he ever did in Boston. Over the years, he worked in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), where South Vietnamese treated him as a hero, but in Hanoi — consulting for Vietnam Airlines — his Marine past earned him some cold stares. 'When they found out I was a veteran, bombing the f— out of these people — needless to say, I got some cold receptions,' he said. It was a former North Vietnamese Air Force pilot who broke down those barriers. 'We weren't adversaries. We were just wearing different uniforms, taking orders from different a–holes,' he said. Gordy Thomas came back too. When he got home from the war in 1972, America was done with people like him. 'We learned not to talk about it,' he said. 'I got cancelled from everything because I'd fought in Vietnam. It's the same way people get cancelled now for supporting Trump. … It's that sense that you have no moral justification.' Decades later, long after getting his veteran's disability rating, he sold his house outside Nashville, cashed in his Delta miles and flew first class back to Da Nang — chasing cheap living, sunshine, and My Khe Beach (China Beach), where Marines once landed. Gordy says living here forced him to confront the 'moral injury' of war — the belief that an American life was worth more than a Vietnamese one. 'Coming here was the final healing point of my PTSD,' he told me. He now gives part of his pension to schools and poor families in his wife's hometown. 'So what it comes down to is the United States government, who sent me down here in the first place…now gives me enough money tax-free each month that I can take a very small amount and give it to the people here,' he said. 'It's very helpful to them and is appreciated.' Like Richard, Gordy never really knew the Vietnamese during the war — and like Richard, he met and married his Vietnamese wife here, only decades later. Matt Keenan's story is about unfinished business. He came to Vietnam in 1971 to help 'Vietnamize' the war. In 2014, back in New York, he got a cancer diagnosis tied to Agent Orange. 'I wasn't surprised,' he said. 'But I wanted to come back and see how the people who were exposed are living.' He found his purpose at the Da Nang Association for Victims of Agent Orange. He volunteers with disabled children, some born decades after the spraying stopped. 'They've become like my extended family,' he said. 'The beach is nice, but that's not my priority. I have a whole life in Vietnam.' He has attended solemn repatriation ceremonies for soldiers' remains. He even stood alongside President Biden during one, handing a former Vietnamese soldier back the diary he had lost 50 years before. Keenan, too, met and married his wife here. Before I left Hanoi, I visited the old Hoa Lo Prison — the 'Hanoi Hilton.' Its yellow walls once held Vietnamese revolutionaries under the French. The Vietnam War wing presents its own tidy version: photos of American POWs smiling, playing basketball, unwrapping care packages — a careful curation of the story. Not far away, in a modest home in west Hanoi, I met Ngo Ngọc Duong. Through a translator, he told me that he joined the North Vietnamese Army at 18 and fought for 16 years as a reconnaissance soldier — crawling into enemy zones for intelligence, surviving on roasted cassava in bamboo tubes. He described the day American helicopters hunted him through dense forest for miles as he dove into foxholes, crawled forward and ran again. 'They had aircraft, bombs, the most advanced weapons,' he said. 'But in the end … they couldn't kill me.' His daughter was born deaf and with intellectual disabilities, a legacy of Agent Orange. Still, he sees American soldiers, like himself, as victims of war. 'They didn't want to invade another country, but due to circumstances and orders, we ended up on opposite sides,' he said. 'On the battlefield, we were enemies — but outside of war, they are just people like us, with families, dreams, and their own pain.' That's why, even today — after all the loss and suffering — he warmly welcomes American veterans back. He hopes to shake hands with them, to talk, to be friends, and most importantly, to send a message: 'Cherish life. Cherish peace.' All four men grew emotional while telling their stories. The three Americans arrived with bombs overhead and rifles in their hands — or bombs strapped to the wings of jets they loaded. Now, they come back with pension checks, Agent Orange scars, and local wives. They stand barefoot on the same sand they once cratered, in a country that — for reasons they're still figuring out — feels more like home than the one they left behind. Daniel Allott is the former opinion editor of The Hill and the author of 'On the Road in Trump's America: A Journey into the Heart of a Divided Country.'

Lazzat runs home and then runs free in Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot
Lazzat runs home and then runs free in Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot

Yahoo

time21-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • Yahoo

Lazzat runs home and then runs free in Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot

The aftermath of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes had almost as much drama as the race and it was certainly more extended. Lazzat, the 9-2 winner, galloped loose around the track for about a quarter of an hour and delayed the presentations after throwing his jockey, James Doyle, shortly after crossing the line. 'I did apologise to the king and queen when I went to collect my prize,' Doyle said, 'and said I should have stayed in Pony Club a bit longer than I did. We had a good laugh about that.' Advertisement Related: Parades, picnics and parasols: Royal Ascot 2025 – in pictures It had already been a good meeting for Doyle, with three winners for his main employer, the increasingly powerful Wathnan Racing operation, but a Group One win on a horse that was bought to join Wathnan less than a month ago took his week to a new level. Lazzat was quickly away and soon leading a group of 10 horses racing down the middle of the track. While the Japanese hope Satono Reve, backed down to start favourite at 2-1, fired a serious challenge at him in the final furlong under João 'Magic Man' Moreira, Lazzat was a half-length in front at the line, with another recent Wathnan purchase, Flora Of Bermuda, another three lengths away in third. 'It's been an amazing week and that has capped it off,' Richard Brown, Wathnan's racing manager, said. 'What an amazing horse race, he's locked up with the Japanese horse and they've gone a long way clear in a six-furlong sprint. That was an absolutely phenomenal race to watch. Advertisement 'When you saw him [Satono Reve] come in, he's a monster walking round here but that is a very, very brave performance. That's two brilliant rides from James from the front.' Doyle had won the opening Chesham Stakes on Humidity. Japan's wait for a first Royal Ascot winner goes on. Satono Reve ran a fine race to finish a half-length second, but he raced in a group of five runners near the stand rail as Lazzat led a larger group in the middle of the track. Had he enjoyed a little more of a tow into the race, it might well have been a different story. Charlie Appleby was on a miserable run of 37 losers at the Royal meeting dating back to the final day in 2022 as Rebel's Romance went to post for the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes. The most dependable and high-achieving horse in the yard delivered for his trainer when he needed it with a one-and-three-quarter-length defeat of Al Riffa. William Buick sent Rebel's Romance to the front well over a furlong out and the seven-times Group One winner stayed on strongly all the way to the line. He will now attempt to win an eighth Group One, taking his prize money earnings past £11m in the process, in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over the same course and distance next month. Advertisement 'I've got a picture of this fellow on my bedside table, he means that much to us all,' Appleby said. 'Full credit to the horse first and foremost, and full credit to all the team. It has been a tough week and that is what you expect when you come here. It is the Olympics. You can come here thinking you are fully loaded and have great chances, and you can walk away with excuses, but that's racing. Pontefract 2.10 Bleep Test 2.40 Roman Secret 3.10 Creatif 3.40 Meribella 4.15 Captain Potter (nap) 4.50 Partisan Hero (nb) 5.25 Adorla Of Achill Hexham 2.18 Huit Reflets 2.48 Beny Nahar Road 3.18 Man Of Action 3.50 Moonbow 4.25 Marty McFly 5.00 Feach Amach Ffos Las 2.30 Shabu Shabu 3.00 Jimmy Mark 3.30 Magnetite 4.05 Hunky Dory 4.40 King Of The Dance 5.15 Three Yorkshiremen Advertisement 'If I was coming into the last day with my last roll of the dice, he was the horse that we needed. It was a fantastic ride by William, and once he kicked for home, I knew it would take a good one to get past him. We've seen so often before that he's a battler, and if something comes to him, he finds again. As it happened, they didn't get close enough. 'It's been a great week for Godolphin [with winners for the John Gosden and Saeed bin Suroor stables] and I'm just glad I've got the monkey off my back there. It's a tough week, but it's a week you've got to enjoy because I know how hard it is to get horses here. To win with them is just a bonus.' As a gelding, Rebel's Romance's racing career is relatively open-ended and after the King George, the seven-year-old is likely to be aimed towards an attempt to become the first three-time winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf. 'He's kept the whole yard afloat this week and you just don't come across these horses often in your career,' Appleby said. 'He's our stable favourite and always will be.' Advertisement Ryan Moore, who rode Sober to victory in the concluding Queen Alexandra Stakes, finished the week as the meeting's leading jockey for the 12th time with seven winners, while John & Thady Gosden, who tied with Aidan O'Brien on five winners after both drew a blank on Saturday, won the trainers' award thanks to one more runner-up. The trainers' award has now been won by either the O'Brien or Gosden stable at the past 11 Royal meetings.

Courage Mon Ami forced to miss Gold Cup once more
Courage Mon Ami forced to miss Gold Cup once more

The Herald Scotland

time25-05-2025

  • Sport
  • The Herald Scotland

Courage Mon Ami forced to miss Gold Cup once more

Another physical issue will cause a second Gold Cup to pass him by, but the slight nature of the setback means he is due to return to action later in the season. 'It's a minor setback, but unfortunately it is enough to mean that he will miss Ascot,' said Richard Brown, racing adviser to Wathnan. 'We will regroup and aim at a campaign running later into the season instead. 'It's not a major issue and he'll certainly be back later in the year, but with the timing it is enough to mean he will miss Ascot.'

Corporate Update
Corporate Update

Yahoo

time20-05-2025

  • Business
  • Yahoo

Corporate Update

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES LONDON, UK / / May 20, 2025 / Gabriel Resources Ltd. (TSXV:GBU) ("Gabriel" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the following corporate update. Final Tranche Closing of Private Placement The Company has closed the final tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of up to 114,152,000 units of the Company (each, a "Unit") at a price of C$0.05 per Unit (the "Offering"). For more information on the Offering, please see the Company's press release dated February 19, 2025, which is available under the Company's SEDAR+ profile at Pursuant to the closing of the final tranche, the Company has issued a total of 28,538,000 Units to Swiss Capital S.A. ("Swiss Capital") for aggregate gross proceeds of US$1.0 million (approximately C$1.4 million), of whicha total of 14,648,985 Units have been issued to Swiss Capital in full and final settlement of US$0.51 million of outstanding indebtedness (including principal and interest) related to the previously announced bridge financing loans. The securities issued in connection with the closing of the final tranche are subject to a statutory four-month hold period, which will expire on September 21, 2025. Completion of the Offering is subject to receipt of final approval of the TSX Venture Exchange's (the "Exchange"). The full subscribed Offering resulted in the issuance of a total of 114,152,000 Units for aggregate gross proceeds of US$4.0 million. Following the settlement of US$1.54m in outstanding bridge financing loans through a debt-for-equity arrangement, the Company has received net proceeds of approximately US$2.46 million. As previously announced, the terms of the Offering triggered thresholds requiring disinterested shareholder approval of aspects of the Offering pursuant to the policies of the TSXV, as further described in the Company's February 19, 2025 press release, which the Company has obtained. The Company will not pay a cash finder's fee in connection with the Offering. The securities described herein have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and accordingly may not be offered or sold within the United States or to "U.S. persons", as such term is defined in Regulation S promulgated under the U.S. Securities Act ("U.S. Persons"), except in compliance with the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities requirements or pursuant to exemptions therefrom. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company's securities to, or for the account of benefit of, persons in the United States or U.S. Persons. Change to Chief Financial Officer Mr. Richard Brown, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, has resigned effective May 19, 2025. Mr. Jeffrey Couch, who is presently a director of the Company and a seasoned finance executive, has been appointed, with immediate effect, as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company until a permanent CFO replacement is appointed. ICSID Annulment As previously announced, in March 2024, the ad hoc committee (the "Committee") adjudicating the Company's application for annulment of the March 8, 2024 ICSID award (the "Arbitral Decision") ruled that the provisional stay of enforcement of that award, granted in July 2024, would continue only if Gabriel provided a guarantee from a bank or a third party with proven solvency for the full amount of the US$10 million cost award. In April 2025, Gabriel informed the Committee of its unsuccessful efforts to secure such a third-party bank guarantee. Consequently, the Committee confirmed that the stay of enforcement was automatically lifted on April 23, 2025. Also, as previously announced, Gabriel filed its Memorial on Annulment (the "Memorial") on April 3, 2025, setting out the grounds that support the annulment of the Arbitral Decision. The Memorial has been published on the ICSID website For information on this press release, please contact: Dragos TanasePresident & CEOdt@ 425 414 9256 Simon LustyGroup General Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Further Information About Gabriel Gabriel is a Canadian resource company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company's principal business has been the exploration and development of the Roșia Montană gold and silver project in Romania, one of the largest undeveloped gold deposits in Europe. Upon obtaining the License in June 1999, the Group focused substantially all of their management and financial resources on the exploration, feasibility and subsequent development of the Roşia Montană Project. An extension of the exploitation license for the Roşia Montană Project (held by Roșia Montană Gold Corporation S.A., a Romanian company in which Gabriel owns an 80.69% equity interest, with the 19.31% balance held by Minvest Roșia Montană S.A., a Romanian state-owned mining company) was rejected by the competent authority in late June 2024. Forward-looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking information" (also referred to as "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans and allowing investors and others to get a better understanding of the Company's operating environment. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. In this press release, forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company at this time, are inherently subject to significant business, economic and competitive uncertainties and contingencies that may cause the Company's actual financial results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied herein. Some of the material factors or assumptions used to develop forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the uncertainties associated with: (i) the ongoing proceedings (the "ICSID Annulment Proceedings") concerning the Company's application for annulment of the award dated March 8, 2024 (the "Arbitral Decision") issued in its ICSID arbitration case against Romania (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/31); (ii) future actions taken by the Romanian Government, including in relation to the enforcement of the costs order granted under the Arbitral Decision (the "Costs Order"); (iii) conditions or events impacting the Company's ability to fund its operations (including but not limited to the completion of the potential financing referred to in this press release); and (iv) the overall impact of misjudgments made in good faith in the course of preparing forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors including those set out below, that may never materialize, prove incorrect or materialize other than as currently contemplated which could cause the Company's results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or performance (often, but not always, identified by words or phrases such as "expects", "is expected", "is of the view", "anticipates", "believes", "plans", "projects", "estimates", "assumes", "intends", "strategy", "goals", "objectives", "potential", "possible", "plans" or variations thereof or stating that certain actions, events, conditions or results "may", "could", "would", "should", "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of any of these terms and similar expressions) are not statements of fact and may be forward-looking statements. Numerous factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including without limitation: the revocation of the provisional stay of enforcement of the Arbitral Decision; the ability of the Company to close the previously announced private placement offering and to access additional funding to support the Group's strategic objectives; the impact on the Company's financial condition and operations of any actions taken by Romania to enforce the Costs Order against the Group's assets; the duration, costs, process and outcome of the ICSID annulment proceedings; the impact on the Company's financial condition and operations of the rejection of the extension of the Rosia Montana exploitation license; the impact on financial condition, business strategy and its implementation in Romania of: any allegations of historic acts of corruption, uncertain fiscal investigations, uncertain legal enforcement both for and against the Group, unpredictable regulatory or agency actions and political and social instability; changes in the Group's liquidity and capital resources; equity dilution resulting from the conversion or exercise of new or existing securities in part or in whole to Common Shares; the ability of the Company to maintain a continued listing on the Exchange or any regulated public market for trading securities; Romania's actions following inscription of the "Roşia Montană Mining Landscape" as a UNESCO World Heritage site; regulatory, political and economic risks associated with operating in a foreign jurisdiction including changes in laws, governments and legal and fiscal regimes; global economic and financial market conditions, including inflation risk; the geo-political situation and the resulting economic developments arising from the unfolding conflict and humanitarian crisis as a consequence of conflicts such as the Russia-Ukraine war; volatility of currency exchange rates; and the availability and continued participation in operational or other matters pertaining to the Group of certain key employees and consultants. This list is not exhaustive of the factors that may affect any of the Company's forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and investors should not infer that there has been no change in the Company's affairs since the date of this press release that would warrant any modification of any forward-looking statement made in this document, other documents periodically filed with or furnished to the relevant securities regulators or documents presented on the Company's website. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements or the foregoing list of assumptions or factors, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, subject to the Company's disclosure obligations under applicable Canadian securities regulations. Investors are urged to read the Company's filings with Canadian securities regulatory agencies which can be viewed online at ENDS SOURCE: Gabriel Resources Ltd. View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data

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