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Frankel, a racehorse, retired after winning all of the 14 races in which he had been entered. That puts him at number 11 in the list of most successful unbeaten racehorses. The top five are:
| Kincsen (born Hungary 1874) | 54 |
| Black Caviar (b. Australia 2006) | 22 |
| Pepper’s Pride (b. US 2003) | 19 |
| Eclipse (b. Britain 1764) | 18 |
| Karayel (b. Turkey 1970) | 18 |
Canterbury City wrote to residents asking them for an annual £16 charge for walking through a council car park to reach their homes. Some more odd council charges:
£80 East Cambridgeshire’s charge for ‘pre-planning application advice’
£84 Cambridgeshire County Council’s charge for a ‘licence to cultivate’, as levied on a GP who planted a few flowers on the verge outside her surgery
£95 Mole Valley council’s charge (later waived) to collect rubbish bags from volunteers on a charity litter-pick which raised £300 for a school in Africa
£2,500 Salford City Council’s charge for ‘traffic management’ while schoolgirls marched through streets to protest at the closure of their school.
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