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The pair were inseparable for much of the last furlong and a half but the photograph showed Rill and Dane O'Neill to have prevailed by a head.

Rill (5-4 favourite) is trained by John Gosden, who was represented by his assistant Daniel Harrap, who said: "She's a nice filly who has had some niggling problems which explains why she hasn't run until now.

"She would have been a little ring rusty and with a bit of luck should improve on that." James Nicol, who has trained winners in the United States from his base in Newmarket, took the Choices Insurance Maiden Handicap with Arctic Cove (11-1), Ted Durcan's mount proving two and a half lengths too strong for Maria Delfina.

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After nine months of shots, my symptoms were as bad as ever, my weight ballooned, and I felt terrible.

In early 2000, my gynecologist ordered an ultrasound, mainly to check the position of fibroids, benign growths often associated with extensive blood flow.

As a precaution, she also removed uterine tissue and ordered a biopsy, which was negative for cancer.

That was a relief, but in truth, I wasn’t worried, as I had almost no family history of cancer.

My standard line was: “We’re heart attack people.” In fact, my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer in her early 70s.

But since she had taken hormones for 30 years, and her cancer was caught at the early “in situ” stage, I didn’t think it had much relevance for me.

What I didn’t know at the time was that my mother’s father had died of colon cancer, not a heart attack, which raised my risk.

I had gained quite a bit of weight on the hormones, so initially, I was pleased as the pounds dropped off after I stopped taking them.

I chalked up my growing fatigue and occasional shakiness to “getting older.” I wasn’t too concerned that anything was seriously wrong until early December 2000.

I woke up one Sunday morning feeling nauseous and flu-ish, but wasn’t going to let that...