Dean Swift

The Group 1 King's Stand Stakes features last year's 1-2-3 -- Blue Point, Battaash and Mabs Cross -- while Accidental Agent faces 10 opponents for his bid to become the first backto-back Queen Anne Stakes victor since Dean Swift in 1907.

The fame of this ditty having reached Dean Swift he was supplied at his own request, with a literal version, from which he executed the following very spirited translation.

NAOMI MATTHEW: 2.20 Lady Jourdain, 2.55 Carragold, 3.30 Dean Swift, 4.05 Miss Topsy Turvy, 4.40 Hotham, 5.15 Ishetoo, 5.45 Grand Stitch

John Presto and Chris Owen touched down and Dean Swift struck a trio of penalties.

Trevor Chester, 22, of Kennet Grove, Chelmsley Wood, Daniel Etheridge, 19, of Warndon, Worcester, Michael Harper, 34, of Summerfield Road, Solihull, Glen Hudson, 27, of Stoneymoor Drive, Castle Bromwich, Simon Makri, 30, of Marlene Croft, Chelmsley Wood, Lee Mayors, 27, of Digby Drive, Marston Green, Paul Sheehan, 25, of Sycamore Green, Cannock, Dean Swift, 20, of Water Orton Road, Castle Bromwich, and Kenneth Wallace, 39, of Wallhouse Road, Walsall, had previously admitted violent disorder.

The gothic style building, which was founded in 1191 by Archbishop Comyn, contains the graves of Dean Swift and his beloved friend Stella.

The dispirited humorist said: "In the good old days people like Dean Swift could come up with outrageous allegories but present day politicians in Northern Ireland always somehow manage to trump satire with reality.

The man in charge at that time was Dean Swift,from Aughton.

IN the Dean Swift Handicap Clive Brittain's 3 to 1 shot Lafontaine (S Cauthen) scores by half a length under a masterly ride from the 'Kentucky Kid' from Jim Old's topweight Cima (P Eddery).

This new white male can now persuade himself that savagery is "out there." The lashes ordered (500 applied five times is 2500) are not one's own savagery; repeated and dangerous breaks for freedom are "puzzling" confirmations of black irrationality; the combination of Dean Swift's beatitudes and a life of regularized violence is civilized; and if the sensibilities are dulled enough, the rawness remains external.