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[b]Timeform's Mark Powell-Bevan looks at whether it's worth opposing Henry Cecil's Midday, one of the Breeders' Cup hotpots...[/b] One of the latecomers to the [b]Breeders' Cup[/b] party, inaugurated in 1999, the [b]Filly & Mare Turf[/b] already has a rich history, with the likes of [b]Banks Hill[/b] (2001), [b]Islington[/b] (2003) and [b]Ouija Board[/b] (2004 & 2006) featuring on the roll of honour. Ed Dunlop's Ouija Board is the only one to have won the race twice, so far, but that could be about to change as [b]Midday[/b] 2.06 would seem to have an excellent chance of following up her win from twelve months earlier. Last year Midday arrived at Santa Anita on the back of a below-par run in the Prix de l'Opera, but she returned to form to give the Europeans a fifth win in the ...