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Brooklyn Breeze is no back-number on his day and can do the business in the Ashleybank Investments Handicap Chase.

Dual Champion Hurdle winner Hardy Eustace proved himself no back-number and again staked his Champion Hurdle claim with an effortless success in the Grade Two Coral Ascot Hurdle at the Berkshire track.

PAUL GASCOIGNE has gone from Everton's FA Cup talisman to a Goodison Park back-number in the space of weeks.

In recent months, though, Prescott, as Cabinet Office Minister, has been regarded as a back-number. But despite his occasional wrestling with the English language, Prescott is the consummate politician, aggressive, jokey and a man who once infuriated his father by announcing he was leaving the working class to become middle class.