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Next month's Derrinstown Stud Flying Five at the Curragh, as well as the Abbaye and Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita in November are all under consideration for Battaash, who lowered Dayjur's 29-year-old track record with a blistering performance in Friday's Nunthorpe at York, with Mabs Cross five and three-quarter lengths behind in fourth.

Battaash carries the famous colours of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, who also won the Abbaye in 1990 with Dayjur.

"The wind op happened over the winter, just a couple of weeks after he won the Abbaye," he said.

Caption: ABOVE RIGHT: In the village of Villons-les-Buissons, students from Cole Harbour High School reflect in silence in the garden of the Abbaye d'Ardenne, where Canadian soldiers were executed by Kurt Meyer's 12th SS Panzer Division (the Hitler Youth) in the days and weeks following the D-Day landings.

"We wouldn't be worried about going back to five furlongs in the Abbaye and he obviously stayed the six well on Saturday.

Abbaye de Talloires, member of Great Hotels of the World in the French Alps, has recently appointed Georges Ringeisen as the property's new head chef.

"At the moment I would be leaning towards Ascot rather than the Abbaye," said the County Tipperary handler.

(33) The most widely-copied French cloister allegory, however, was the anonymous work known variously as the Religion du cuer, the Cloistre de l'ame, the Sainte abbaye, and the Riule, or the Abbaye, du saint Esprit.

SAINSBURY'S ABBAYE IF you're looking for a beer to share round the table, then pick up a bottle of Sainsbury's Abbaye Biere de Belgique.

The twenty-seven EU commissioners will hold a workshop, on 11 and 12 September in Abbaye de la Ramee in Jodoigne (Walloon Brabant), in order to discuss the political priorities not only for the second half of 2008 but also for the last year of their term.

The Prix de l' Abbaye and multiple Irish winner was weak in the market at Sha Tin, but was prominent in the early stages before dropping back to eventually finish last of the 13 behind the impressive Sacred Kingdom.

The bar, which is seeing its third reincarnation under manager Leon Blethyn, will become a swanky continental theme bar selling beers from Abbaye d'Aulne and Abdij Dobbel to Zanzi, Zeeuwsche Zotheid and Zeurprise.

The Romanesque ruins of the Abbaye de Montmajour dominate the surrounding Provencal landscape from the top of a hill about 5km north of Aries.

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy (Rochefort), B-5580 Rochefort, Belgium.

Abbaye, a great sage, the ancient volume appeared to say, had chased all the imps and devils out of Jerusalem into the desert.