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Kangana Ranauat slams Bollywood celebs who back Black rights but endorse fairness cream

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Kangana Ranauat slams Bollywood celebs who back Black rights but endorse fairness cream

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Kangana Ranaut has taken a dig at Bollywood celebrities who are protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, US, and taking part in the Black Lives Matter campaign, but preferred to stay mum when two sadhus were lynched in Palghar.

“I feel it has become fancy to somehow be a part of this bandwagon which is relevant to the West. But if you see how Asian celebrities and actors work, they are very impactful in this part of the country. I don’t know how they are participating in the socio-political reform of America. Just a few weeks ago, two sages were killed openly in a mob, they we’re lynched to death. But unfortunately cops handed them over to the bloodthirsty mob. There was not a word from anyone. I think that would probably resonate with the majority Indian sentiments,” said Kangana, in an interview with BBC.

A video clip of the interview has been shared on the actress’s official Instagram page.

In the interview, Kangana also pointed out that many Bollywood actors and actresses who endorse fairness creams were now talking about racial discrimination.

“These people, especially the Indian celebrities, the successful ones, certainly I am the exception, they have been endorsing all kinds of fairness products and today shamelessly they stand and say black lives matter. How dare they? Why is no one asking them? What about these million dollar deals that they have been doing with all kinds of fairness products and how come now suddenly black lives matter?” she said.

The actress added: “When you politicise your compassion, your activism, your humanity, then you are also a part of the problem. The problem is selective compassion and I think that is what we are seeing here in India. Most celebrities are being called out on this that why there was no outrage over the monks because sadhus are like monks. They were killed precisely because they were wearing saffron clothes. There is no outrage. Everybody is mum about it. I think the dissent is also being commercialised to look busy without work I’d say.”

“A fully developed super power, a developed nation like America, we want to involve ourselves in their political issues but we have so much to do here…We should take a lead from them and we should talk about our issues because every country has their own set of issues and we need to first deal within the house before we go out and try and reform the world. We are failing to do that,” she told BBC.

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Pentagon Ordered National Guard Helicopters’ Aggressive Response in D.C.

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Pentagon Ordered National Guard Helicopters’ Aggressive Response in D.C.

WASHINGTON — Top Pentagon officials ordered National Guard helicopters to use what they called “persistent presence” to disperse protests in the capital this week, according to military officials. The loosely worded order prompted a series of low-altitude maneuvers that human rights organizations quickly criticized as a show of force usually reserved for combat zones.

Ryan D. McCarthy, the Army secretary and one of the officials who authorized part of the planning for the helicopters’ mission Monday night, said on Friday that the Army had opened an investigation into the episode.

Two Army National Guard helicopters flew low over the protesters, with the downward blast from their rotor blades sending protesters scurrying for cover and ripping signs from the sides of buildings. The pilots of one of the helicopters have been grounded pending the outcome of the inquiry.

The high-profile episode, after days of protests in Washington — some of which turned violent — was a turning point in the military’s response to unrest in the city. After days of operating on the periphery of the crowds, National Guard forces suddenly became a focus of the controversy over the military’s role in urban law enforcement.

Military officials said that the National Guard’s aggressive approach to crowd control was prompted by a pointed threat from the Pentagon: If the Guard was unable to handle the situation, then active-duty military units, such as a rapid-reaction unit of the 82nd Airborne Division, would be sent into the city.

Senior Pentagon officials, including Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were trying to persuade President Trump that active-duty troops should not be sent into the streets to impose order, and that law enforcement and National Guard personnel could contain the level of unrest.

On Monday night, both Mr. McCarthy and the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. James C. McConville, pressed Maj. Gen. William J. Walker, the commanding general of the District of Columbia National Guard, to increase his forces’ presence in the city, according to a senior Defense Department official.

An Army official declined to comment, saying that the investigation was continuing.

The episode has stirred outrage among lawmakers. “What we saw on Monday night was our military using its equipment to threaten and put Americans at risk on American soil,” said Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and former Army Black Hawk pilot.

Documents obtained by The New York Times show that planning for the National Guard mission included oversight by Mr. McCarthy and General McConville. The operation had been reviewed by a judge advocate team — military lawyers — before aviation units were instructed to apply “persistent presence.” These types of maneuvers are well known to Mr. McCarthy, who served in the Army’s elite Ranger Regiment during the opening operations of the war in Afghanistan.

The episode, which occurred about three hours after a 7 p.m. curfew in the capital went into effect on Monday, began when a Black Hawk helicopter, assigned to the District of Columbia National Guard, began a low and slow pass over a group of roughly 200 peaceful protesters in the Chinatown neighborhood.

The downward force of the helicopter’s rotor blades snapped a small tree, with debris almost hitting several people. The second helicopter tried a similar maneuver. Roaring overhead, the Lakota, adorned with a red-and-white cross denoting its medical affiliation, hovered over the crowd, staying at rooftop level, blowing debris and sending protesters scattering.

The red cross with white background is a “universally recognized symbol of medical aid and is protected under the Geneva Conventions,” Human Rights Watch said in a report Friday. “Its misuse is prohibited under the conventions and it has no place in a ‘show of force’ or to forcibly disperse protesters.”

“The wind speeds created by a low-hovering helicopter can lift objects and cause serious damage, potentially leading to injury or death,” the report said. “These risks are amplified in congested urban environments, where the consequences would be exceptionally dangerous if something were to go wrong.”

On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said that he was told that the helicopters had been asked by law enforcement to look at a checkpoint to “see if there were protesters around.”

“We need to let the Army conduct its inquiry and get back and see what the facts actually are,” Mr. Esper told reporters. The District of Columbia National Guard is the only unit of the Guard that reports directly to the president because of the capital’s unusual political status — it has no governor, who usually commands the units.

A District of Columbia National Guard spokeswoman declined to comment, citing the open investigation.

During the operation Monday night, the helicopters followed the crowd through several well-lit intersections and repeatedly hovered over protesters for close to an hour.

People at the scene expressed their disbelief and fear. One protester, asked by a friend if he wanted to stay out later, responded curtly that he was just “trying not to die.”

There is no formal training for the type of maneuvers conducted Monday night, said one military official with direct knowledge of the episode, so any guidance about “persistent presence” is left to the interpretation of the pilots.

The use of a medical evacuation helicopter, the official added, appeared to result from the fact that command levels of the District of Columbia National Guard did not realize that the majority of the Lakota helicopters available for law enforcement missions are deployed to the Texas border for Customs and Border Protection missions there to halt illegal immigration.

While many Army aviation units have the Red Cross symbol in a detachable form, by way of magnets, the District of Columbia National Guard has the cross painted on the airframes of its helicopters since they are so often involved in a patient transfer program that moves people among routine, urgent and critical care facilities in the Washington area, the official added.

The unit responsible for Monday’s episode performed a lifesaving transfer mission the next day, transporting a deteriorating patient from Ft. Belvoir’s community hospital in Virginia to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., the official said. On Friday, The Washington Post reported that all District of Columbia National Guard helicopter operations had been suspended pending the results of the investigation, although it was unclear if that affects medical patient transfers.

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Opinion | Mattis’ unprecedented criticism of Trump reveals larger constitutional crisis

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Opinion | Mattis’ unprecedented criticism of Trump reveals larger constitutional crisis

On Monday, riot police supported by both National Guard troops and other federal agencies rousted peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so President Donald Trump could walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church for a photo op. Trump’s understanding of the protesters — and their anger with America’s longstanding problems with racism and police brutality — appears exceedingly limited. He described himself as “your president of law and order” and warned that the nation was “gripped by professional anarchists, violent mobs, or, arsonists, looters, criminals.”

In a series of striking critiques this week, senior retired military officers spoke out forcefully and unequivocally against the president.

But the nation’s top military leaders have a different perspective. In a series of striking critiques this week, senior retired military officers including former Secretary of Defense and retired Gen. James Mattis spoke out forcefully and unequivocally against the president. This is not a disagreement over policy, but rather an indictment of the commander in chief’s leadership and competency at a critical moment for the nation. For senior retired military officers to level such criticism against a serving president is unprecedented and signals a true constitutional crisis over American civil-military relations.

Mattis has been criticized for not speaking out previously about his disagreements with the president following his resignation. This week, he decided he could remain silent no longer. In a stunning critique published in the Atlantic, Mattis argued that citizens’ rights “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” as outlined in the Bill of Rights, have been violated across America. He urged “those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution” be held accountable. Such strong political condemnation from a former general is extraordinary for many reasons — but Mattis went even further. He excoriated Trump for dividing the nation and declared the country is “witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”

This view was quickly endorsed by other senior retired military officers, including two former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Adm. Mike Mullen and Gen. Martin Dempsey. Mattis also delivered some more veiled criticism directed at the current Pentagon civilian and military leadership, with others quickly echoing this condemnation as well. Current Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, accompanied Trump on his very public walk to St. John’s, and in so doing, appeared to endorse his actions.

Both attempted to distance themselves afterward from accusations that they had been used by the president as political props. As a political appointee, Esper’s future is problematic, and he may soon join the long list of senior officials who have resigned or been fired by the president.

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But this sad series of events has presented the nation’s uniformed military leadership with a challenge to civil-military relations. Each swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies — foreign and domestic. But they have also sworn to obey the orders of the president as commander in chief. Trump wittingly or not seems bent on forcing these senior military officers to choose between these potentially conflicting loyalties, and some fear such a dilemma could occur soon.

The military leadership’s collective discomfort was demonstrated by a memorandum Milley released to top military commanders this week reaffirming the critical importance of the oath taken by every member of the armed forces. He reminded service members that the Constitution “gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly.”

The service chiefs (Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines) know the American people’s opinion of their military could be irrevocably damaged by future confrontations between peaceful demonstrators and soldiers. They also know that people of color comprise 40 percent of their ranks. Consequently, each has issued carefully crafted messages designed not to criticize Trump directly but expressing their solidarity with American rights and values.

In his statement, Gen. David L. Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, called the death of George Floyd a “national tragedy.” But this was as far as the serving chiefs can go, absent resigning in protest. To do otherwise would require them to either openly defy the commander in chief or subvert their sense of duty. Both paths are contrary to their professional military ethic and would diminish them in the eyes of those they command.

The relationship between our civil and military leaders is foundational for our democracy. It rests on an implicit “contract” requiring mutual respect, trust and consultation. The military is allowed autonomy over decisions within its professional jurisdiction and expects to be consulted on matters of national security. Its professional responsibility is to provide unbridled advice to civilian leadership — while accepting that final decisions rest with those elected by the American people. In return, the military expects to remain apolitical and not used as a partisan tool.

At the onset of our nation, the Founding Fathers were concerned the professional military might in the future become a threat to democracy. They underscored their concerns in the grievances listed in the Declaration of the Independence. Among the facts “submitted to a candid world,” they argued the king had “affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power,” maintained “Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures” and quartered “large bodies of armed troops among us.” In other words, they were determined to make sure military and political leaders worked together for the common good — and to make sure no single leader could unilaterally use the military for his or her own political purpose.

Since his election, Trump has sought the support of the military while periodically being contemptuous of its prerogatives. At times, he has seemed to view the military as just another political force to be used for partisan advantage. As a result, some in the military — as well as retired officers serving in senior administration positions — have, over the past three years, exercised what could be called “respectful disobedience” to appear supportive of the president while keeping his worst excesses at bay. In the current crisis, their ability to do this and avoid overt politicization may no longer be possible, and this may be further strained as we approach the November election.

Throughout his tenure in office, Trump has voiced his approval of using active duty troops for domestic missions, ranging from border security to law enforcement.

Throughout his tenure in office, Trump has voiced his approval of using active duty troops for domestic missions, ranging from border security to law enforcement. He informed America’s governors during the current crisis that he was placing Milley “in charge” of restoring order and repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy federal troops — perhaps even without a request by state leaders. The president apparently views such actions as demonstrations of strength, as opposed to a regrettable necessity, and even endorsed a senator’s dangerous call for the deployment of Army divisions to American cities.

The pressures on the American body politic are enormous. This crisis comes at a moment when the nation is already beset by a pandemic. Millions of Americans are out of work. Against this backdrop, the erosion of democratic norms by the president threatens an essential covenant between the American people and their military. Retired Marine Gen. John Allen underscored the challenge the nation faces. He cautioned that the president’s threats to use military force against protestors “may well signal the beginning of the end of the American experiment.”

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At this critical moment in our history, it is imperative that the current senior leadership of the American military speak truth to power. And if they feel they cannot do that while working for this administration, they have only one other option. It might be useful for them to remember a statement by then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell nearly 30 years ago. He was asked by a Naval Academy midshipman what an officer should do if he or she is directed by political leadership to do something contrary to their oath. Powell replied succinctly, “If after those decisions are made you still find it completely unacceptable and it strikes to the heart of your moral beliefs, then I think you have to resign.”

Jeff McCausland, a retired U.S. Army colonel, is national security consultant for CBS Radio, visiting professor at Dickinson College and CEO of Diamond6 Leadership, LLC. He commanded a battalion in combat, was a member of the National Security Council and was dean of the U.S. Army War College. 

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Kruger National Park to allow self-drive excursions from 8 June

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Kruger National Park to allow self-drive excursions from 8 June

It will be back to the bush for many after the Kruger National Park announced that they will be open for game drives from 8 June. 

South Africa’s largest game reserve has not had any visitors since the start of the nationwide lockdown in March, but since the implementation of Alert Level 3 restrictions, they are now permitted to run game drives, although guests still can’t spend the night at the iconic park.

Kruger to allow self-drive excursions 

All national parks will be opened from Monday, except for the Namaqua National Park, Boulders and Cape Point in the Table Mountain National Park, due to the Western Cape’s exceedingly high level of COVID-19 infections. 

SANParks CEO Fundisile Mketeni said in a statement on Friday 5 June that the park has received plenty of enquiries for bookings despite the complete shutdown of the tourism industry.

“We appreciated that after two months of confinement, the public is keen to engage with nature and the excitement as shown by enquiries from our loyal visitors is encouraging,” he said. 

He said that the park would be open only for self drive excursions and that extremely strict hygiene and sanitation protocols must be observed. 

“We are obligated to ensure that the opening of our national parks for self-drive excursions is done under the strictest health protocols to safeguard both our staff and guests,” he said.

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Gate access to the park has been limited to a third of the usual slots, with access permitted from 6am to 8am during slot one, 8am to 10am for slot two, from 10am onwards for slot three.

Mketeni said. That inter-provincial travel within the park would remain prohibited, and pledged to continue following government mandated protocol as the park begins to operate again. 

“Everything as we knew it has fundamentally changed by COVID-19. Therefore, we are requesting guests to adhere to all official Alert Level 3 regulations when inside the parks, including wearing masks, keeping social distance, and following transport capacity directives.”

“We also implore guests not to deposit their litter inside the bins within the parks, but to leave with as much of it as hygienically possible,” he said.



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NFL apology over treatment of players’ anti-racism protests

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NFL apology over treatment of players’ anti-racism protests

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has apologised for the way the United States National Football League has handled players’ protests against racial injustice and police brutality.

Colin Kaepernick and others began kneeling in 2016 as the national anthem was played.

Al Jazeera’s Alexi O’Brien reports.

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Global report: India’s Covid-19 case total surpasses Italy’s

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Global report: India’s Covid-19 case total surpasses Italy’s

India has overtaken Italy as the sixth worst-affected country, after another biggest single-day rise in confirmed Covid-19 infections.

India’s health ministry reported 9,887 new cases on Saturday, bringing the official total to 236,657. The country has fewer confirmed cases than only the US, Brazil, Russia, Britain and Spain.

India’s official Covid-19 death toll – at 6,642 – remains relatively low compared with the other countries. But experts said the country is still nowhere near its peak and doctors fear what will happen once the imminent monsoon season hits.

However, despite no sign of flattening the curve, on Monday the country will begin opening up, after more than two months of the world’s largest lockdown, of all 1.3 billion Indian citizens. Shopping malls and places of worship will open their doors from Monday. There will, however, be no large gatherings allowed and no distribution of food offerings, sprinkling of holy water or touching of idols and holy books.

Almost half of the country’s known cases have been traced to the four huge, densely populated cities of Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Mumbai, where hospitals have already run out of beds and patients are kept on floors and share oxygen tanks. However, as the millions of migrant workers who spent weeks trapped in the cities return home, they are spreading the virus to remote rural areas, which often have no medical facilities to speak of.

On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted how India’s lockdown helped it dampen transmission of the disease but warned there was a risk cases could rise again as people returned to their ordinary lives.

“As India and other large countries open up and people begin to move, there is always a risk of the disease bouncing back up,” Dr Mike Ryan, the head of WHO’s emergencies programme, told a news conference in Geneva.

Latin America remains one of the global coronavirus hotspots. The situation worsened severely in Mexico, where the health ministry reported an additional 4,346 cases, as well as 625 new deaths. That brought the country’s confirmed total to 110,026 cases and 13,170 deaths.

However, despite the rising infection rate, Mexico’s president, the leftwing populist Andrés Manuel López, continued to insist his strategy had been effective. He dismissed media reports around the escalating death toll, which is second only to Brazil’s in the region, as “alarmist and irresponsible”.

The death toll continued to rise in Russia, where 197 people died in the past 24 hours. The country’s official death toll is 5,725. There were 8,855 new cases of the virus, according to officials. This pushed the total number of recorded infections to 458,689.

The official death toll has been called into question, however, after mortality data from Russia’s second-largest city, St Petersburg, revealed the city had issued 1,552 more death certificates this May than in the previous year – a 32% rise. It was a strong indicator that hundreds of deaths caused by Covid-19 are not being reflected in the city’s official coronavirus death toll for the month, which was 171.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases also increased in Germany by 407 to 183,678.

Meanwhile, China recorded three new confirmed cases of Covid-19, down from five the day before. All cases were imported from abroad, according to the National Health Commission (NHC). The total number of infections in China, where the virus first emerged late last year, stands at 83,030.

On early Saturday, the G20 group of 20 rich and emerging economies, including the US, UK, France, India and China, pledged more than $21bn to fight the coronavirus. In April, the group called on all countries, NGOs, philanthropies and the private sector to help close a financing gap estimated at more than $8bn to combat the pandemic.

The group said in a statement: “The G20, with invited countries, has coordinated the global efforts to support the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, G20 members and invited countries have pledged over $21bn to support funding in global health.

“The pledges will be directed towards diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics, and research and development.”

Even with all the talk of countries gradually opening up to international flights again, the airline industry continued to reel from the effects of the pandemic. United Airlines became to latest airline to announce they will close cabin crew bases in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Frankfurt.

New Zealand, however, is still on course to declare itself Covid-19 free by next week. It would be the first country among the OECD group of wealthy countries, and the first that has recorded more than 100 cases, to do so.

Hailed for its efficient and successful containment of the virus, New Zealand has had only 22 coronavirus deaths. The last person known to have contracted the virus domestically left quarantine on 18 May. Scientists said they would be able to declare the domestic elimination of the virus after 28 days of no known cases, which will be on 15 June.

“According to our model, that would put us nearly at the 99% probability of elimination,” said Nick Wilson, a public health specialist from the University of Otago.

Elsewhere around the world:

  • Poland plans to extend a ban on international flights until 16 June due to Covid-19

  • Australia’s deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, said warnings by China that its citizens are not safe from racist attacks related to the coronavirus pandemic in Australia are based on “false information”

  • Indonesia reported its biggest daily rise in Covid-19 infections, with 993 new cases, taking its total official number to 30,514

  • The Philippines’ health ministry reported seven new coronavirus deaths and 714 additional infections. The total death toll stands at 994, while official cases have reached 21,340

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Trump Erupts After Attack Target Lisa Page Joins MSNBC As National Security Analyst

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Trump Erupts After Attack Target Lisa Page Joins MSNBC As National Security Analyst

Donald Trump blew up Friday following the announcement that former FBI attorney and frequent target of the president Lisa Page has been named as a national security and legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

“You must be kidding???” Trump tweeted. “This is a total disgrace!”

Page posted her TV introduction by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on her Twitter account, writing, “I started something new today!”

In Page’s first appearance (check out the video at the top) she discussed the GOP reaction to the Trump administration’s approach to protests over the brutal police killing of George Floyd during an arrest. She was supportive of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) for sharing her concerns about Trump, and noted that it “isn’t easy to be courageous.” But Page said she was hopeful that “courage begets courage” and that more people, like former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, would speak out against the Trump administration.

Trump has long reveled in bashing Page and her former lover, ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok, who disparaged Trump in messages to each other while they were investigating his campaign’s possible collusion with the Kremlin in a bid to sway the 2016 presidential election to Trump.

Trump last year even acted out an imagined near-orgasm between Page and Strzok at a campaign rally.

Page finally lashed out publicly at Trump a short time later and called his act “truly reprehensible.” She later accused him of being “obsessed” with the FBI pair.

A report by the Justice Department’s inspector general issued late last year concluded that Page and Strzok’s personal opinions about Trump did not impact the investigation, further making a lie of Trump’s claim that the probe against him was concocted by haters.



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Frankly Darling likely for Ribblesdale next at Ascot

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Frankly Darling likely for Ribblesdale next at Ascot

John Gosden is leaning towards the Ribblesdale Stakes at Royal Ascot as the next target for Frankly Darling.

The Anthony Oppenheimer-owned filly saw her odds cut for next month’s Investec Oaks at Epsom following her impressive maiden win at Newcastle on Monday.

However, the Newmarket handler first favours sending the daughter of Frankel to the Royal meeting for a tilt at the Group Two prize he claimed 12 months with Star Catcher in the same silks.

Gosden said: “Frankly Darling at the moment is pointing towards the Ribblesdale.

“She took her race at very well at Newcastle. Remember she has only had two runs in her life, whereas Miss Yoda (Lingfield Oaks Trial winner) had two wins last year and was placed in a Group race against the colts, so she is more experienced whereas Frankly Darling would need the experience.

“You never know the value of a maiden, but we like the filly and she did it well. We have always liked her and she has trained well all spring. Hopefully we can go forward towards the Ribblesdale.”

The Ribblesdale has been moved from its traditional Thursday slot to the opening day of Royal Ascot on June 16 as officials try to allow as much time between the trial and the Oaks on July 4.



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Manchester United boss Solskjaer backs extra subs change

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Manchester United boss Solskjaer backs extra subs change

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says the introduction of extra substitutions will be a welcome addition to the Premier League.

The league restarts on 17 June after what will be a 100-day suspension of play.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the English top flight to shut down in March.

Project restart forges ahead despite warnings

Britain’s official virus death toll has now topped 40,000, but ‘Project Restart’ will see the Premier League get going again. Manchester United return to action away to Tottenham Hotspur on 19 June.

United will have to hit the ground running as the engagement againsy former boss Jose Mourinho’s Spurs is followed by a clash with fellow European qualification hopefuls Sheffield United on 24 June. The FA Cup quarter-final at Norwich and another league match at Brighton will follow soon afterwards.

Manchester United boss Solskjaer welcomes extra subs

With 92 matches needed to complete the season matches will come thick and fast. For this reason the Premier League clubs have agreed managers will be able to make up to five substitutions per match from an expanded nine-strong bench as a way of helping sides cope with a three-month backlog of fixtures.

“I think that’s helpful because footballers, after being out for so long, going into competitive games will be a challenge for them and we have to look after them injury-wise and fitness-wise,” United manager Solskjaer told the club’s website.

“We can’t just flog one player and say to them, ‘you play every game and every minute’ because it might be a period when we have to rotate quite often.”

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United are currently three points adrift of a place in next season’s Champions League. 

“It does feel like a new season but then again, the first two games against Tottenham and Sheffield United are vital for the league standings, the table,” Solskjaer said.

Solskjaer was upbeat about the prospect of getting something out of a season that has thus far been one Manchester United fans might want to forget.

“And it’s a short season, it’s only nine (league) games so can we get as many points and good performances as possible.

“If we do get a good spell now, we could end up with some trophies and something to cheer about.

“It’s a young team with some great talent, some great work-rate, personalities… the human qualities in the group are fantastic.”

The enforced suspension has allowed Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford to regain fitness from long term injuries bolstering Solskjaer’s squad.

Mourinho awaits Manchester United

Solskjaer was cautious about their prospects of playing against Mourinho’s Spurs first up.

“Well, we hope everybody’s going to be ready for the first game.

“We’ve had time out so I don’t think we can expect that those lads who’ve missed lots of the football can last the full game.”



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