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Generational talent Billy Loughnane bids for more big-race success
Billy Loughnane after winning the Coventry Stakes on RashabarCredit: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
He has been hailed as a once-in-a-generation talent and on Saturday, fresh from another amazing feat, the lauded teenager hopes to star on the big stage in front of a large television audience.
No, not Jude Bellingham. The man whose bicycle kick rescued England against mighty Slovakia and now seeks to dismiss the Swiss in a Euro quarter-final has been a 20-something for just over a year.
Whereas Billy Loughnane will not even turn 19 until next March. Who knows what he might have done by then?
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