Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Dall predicts bright future for England

- RUGBY UNION By ANDREW BALDOCK

Going: Soft-good to soft in places Draw: Any advantage in the draw is dependent on the position of the stalls.

FRONTISPIE­CE (77) Mrs A Perrett 5 10-0 (D) .......K Shoemark 89 ZACK MAYO (524) P McBride 5 10-0 (D2) .............T Marquand — JUS PIRES (28) D Carroll 5 9-10 ..................................D Nolan — ALFREDO (28) S Durack 7 9-10 ..............................T P Queally — CHARTERED (140) R Beckett 3 9-7 (D) .....................R Hornby 87 AMOURICE (27) J Chapple-Hyam 4 9-7 (D) .........D Keenan (3) 84 ROTHERWICK (33) P Cole 7 9-6 (C) ...................... David Egan 92 PERSIAN SUN (36) S C Williams 4 9-5 (D) .......... P J McDonald 89 ARABIC CULTURE (21) G Tuer 5 9-5 (D2) ................. J Mitchell 82 POINT IN TIME (22) M Usher 4 9-3 (D3) ..................D Probert 97 FLY THE FLAG (64) J Gosden 3 9-2........................... N Mackay 68 TOP POWER (25) A Balding 3 9-1 ......................... S De Sousa 88 BETTING: 11-4 Fly The Flag, 4 Chartered, 6 Frontispie­ce, 7 Top Power, 10 Arabic Culture, Rotherwick, 12 Jus Pires, Persian Sun, 14 Others.

7-4 Dwelt led after 1f, pushed along and pressed over 1f out, ridden over 1f out, edged right inside final furlong, ran on, won at Chelmsford City 1m 5f Fillies Novice Stakes (3yo+) (3) pol in Aug beating Royal Family by 3/4l, 3 ran. 3-1 Tracked leader, led over 3f out, driven clear entering final furlong, easily, won at Goodwood 1m 4f flls hcp 0-130 (3) sft in Jun beating Hyanna by 4 1/2l, 5 ran. 13-2 Led, came to near side rail in straight, narrowly headed towards finish, rallied to join leader and force dead heat post, won at Newbury 1m 5f hcp 0-90 (3) gs in Aug deadheatin­g with Emenem (9-7), 6 ran. 11-2 Led and set good pace, led field far side in straight, ridden over 2f out, headed 2f out, lost 2nd over 1f out, plugged on in 3rd, 3rd of 10, 2l behind Torcello at Windsor 1m 3f hcp 0-95 (3) sft in Oct. 8-1 Held up, headway over 2f out, soon chasing leaders, stayed on gamely into 2nd inside final furlong, no chance with winner, 2nd of 9, 2l behind Paths Of Glory at Newcastle 1m 4f hcp 0-85 (4) in Oct.

LAWRENCE Dallaglio has predicted a special future for England’s World Cup-chasing team ahead of their bid for global glory.

England will complete a clean sweep of victories over southernhe­misphere heavyweigh­ts Australia, New Zealand and South Africa on successive weekends if they beat the Springboks in Saturday’s final.

And 2003 England World Cup winner Dallaglio is enthused by what could lie ahead for Eddie Jones’ squad.

“This is a team that is still very much discoverin­g how good they can potentiall­y be,” said Dallaglio, speaking on behalf of Land Rover, Official Worldwide Partner of Rugby World Cup 2019.

“The exciting thing is there is a lot more to come from this England side.

“They have now set that benchmark with that performanc­e (victory over New Zealand in the semi-final) right up there, and it’s going to be something quite special, I think.

“To win a World Cup, two of your games normally tend to be against southern-hemisphere teams, but were they to beat all three back to back – I am not sure I can recall that.

“It’s pretty impressive, but they have got one more to go, and that’s the key.”

Reflecting on England’s stunning victory over the All Blacks, Dallaglio added: “It’s one of the all-time great Rugby World Cup performanc­es, full stop.

“I would almost go as far to say it was the most complete England performanc­e we’ve seen for quite some time, if indeed ever – and I say that with a huge amount of pride.

“I think what was even more impressive is that normally when you see a team beat the All Blacks there tends to be a lot of hysteria on the final whistle because it’s a major

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achievemen­t. But I think with this side what was really impressive is that at the final whistle, yes of course they were pleased, but they seemed to be fairly grounded and under control and recognised that it was a semi-final and not a final.”

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