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By JOHN BERRY The internationalization of mod- another adventure Down Under. ern racing means that the connec- A dual winner of both the G2 tions of Europe’s best horses are Princess of Wales’s S. and the G2 nowadays faced with a plethora Goodwood Cup in England, Big Or- of appealing options, domestically ange (who is raced in partnership by and overseas. One man currently Bill Gredley and his son Tim) has al- pondering such choices is veteran ready competed with distinction in Newmarket-based owner/breeder Australia and Dubai, having finished Bill Gredley, whose homebred five- fifth in the G1 Emirates Melbourne year-old gelding Big Orange (GB) Cup last November and second in (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}), a mul- the G2 Dubai Gold Cup on Dubai tiple Group Two winner in the UK, World Cup night in March. once again finds that the world is ther travels surely beckon for the his oyster. Seemingly a perfect can- Gredley family in an odyssey which didate for either the QIPCO British ranks as the latest chapter in a sto- Champions Long Distance Cup at ry which has had many twists and Ascot or the Emirates Melbourne turns since its first pages were writ- Cup at Flemington, Big Orange now ten in the 1970s. looks set to take his connections on When Gredley, 83, first began to 81 Fur-