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AT five-and-half furlongs, the Portland Handicap is a true specialists race, as Halmahera showed with three wins in 2002, 03 and 04.
As befits a contest of its longstanding, the trends play a huge part in finding the winner, as does draw and tactics.
For starters, no winners from the last 14 runnings have come from a stall lower than five.
Longshots are hopeless too, with all winners in the...