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It's only a week since the imposing colt won the York trial from Trading Leather and with just over a week to go until the Derby he'll be doing nothing strenuous in the lead up to the big race.

"Hopefully there's still a bit more to come, but time will tell on that one," Burke told Racing UK.

"There's no doubt that if he was with one of the bigger yards that have regular Classic runners he'd be a few points shorter, but I don't take that as disrespect - that's just natural.

"Obviously we have a very fit horse and in many ways it's easier for us. We can just float him into the Derby from here and he'll do a few canters and maybe have one little blow next Tuesday before the Derby and all being well we'll end up at Epsom."

Burke was speaking at Pontefract after Stepping Ahead was a mighty impressive winner in the Tony Lewis & Our Best Pal Handicap.

Sent off the 5/1 joint-second favourite in a field of five, the son of Footstepsinthesand defied a handicap mark of 77 in some style by easing to a seven-length success over rank outsider Mystical Man.

Sir Michael Stoute's 8/11 favourite Mission Approved was a big disappointment in fourth.

Burke said of his impressive winner: "He was pretty backward last year, but we've given him time and we thought we had a chance with his handicap mark.

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The Dr. Mark Foster Show: Contrasting Critical Realist and Libertarian Approaches to Freedom – Video

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The Dr. Mark Foster Show: Contrasting Critical Realist and Libertarian Approaches to Freedom
In this radio program, I will address two views of freedom: the individualist, libertarian perspective (liberty) and the Critical Realist and metaRealist perspective (emancipation).

By: Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.

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Libertarian Party: Don't waste time investigating IRS, abolish it NOW along with income tax

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The presidential administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and, now, Barack Obama have all been caught using the Internal Revenue Service to target political enemies.

As long as we have the IRS and the income tax we should expect more presidents to use their power to silence and intimidate free voices. No IRS investigation or firing of a few scapegoats will change that.

"We must abolish the IRS and end any need for a regulatory agency that snoops into people's private lives," said Libertarian Party Executive Director Carla Howell. "We must draw back total federal spending to the level of 1992, which is more than enough to fulfill the government's constitutional duties to protect our life, liberty, and property. This will allow us to balance the budget immediately, end the federal income tax completely, and give back an average of more than $12,000 to every family in America."

"We don't need an income tax, and we certainly don't need the IRS," Howell said.

The Libertarian Party is the only political party in America calling for both dismantling the IRS altogether and dramatically and immediately downsizing Big Government.

"The Libertarian Party is running candidates to dramatically downsize the federal government," Howell said. "We can cut federal spending by 50 percent, or even 90 percent, and Americans will be better for it. We can end the personal income tax, the corporate income tax, the death tax, and all federal payroll taxes. There will be no need for the IRS, nor any substitute agency."

"Ending the income tax, abolishing the IRS, and cutting federal spending to the level of 1992 means no more deficit spending," Howell said. "This will stop inflation and stabilize prices. Even more importantly, it will transfer wealth out of the wasteful, dysfunctional and destructive government sector and into the productive private sector, resulting in a bounty of new jobs and prosperity for Americans."

"We will make living in America and doing business in America much better," Howell said. "Individuals, businesses, and political organizations will all be safe from government interrogation and free to express their political views. It will dramatically increase the wealth of the private sector and inspire hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in small businesses and American jobs."

Another benefit of abolishing the IRS is that it would become far more difficult to fund massive interventionist military presence and warfare around the globe.

"It will also require our massive military budgets to go down, which currently encourage overseas meddling and war," Howell said. "We get rid of the IRS, we get rid of the income tax, we dramatically downsize federal spending and taxation, and America and the world will be better for it."

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Libertarian frees up Derby odds with Yorkshire win

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He would not have the class, surely, or the speed. He isn't even the right shape. But the sudden squall of hail prompted by his success here suggested that Libertarian, if nothing else, will introduce due grit to the British Turf's greatest race. For his shock success in the trial that honours the North's last winner now 68 years ago plainly qualified this big, dour brute as a fitting ambassador for Yorkshire in the Investec Derby a fortnight tomorrow.

His performance in the Betfred Dante Stakes was hewn from a physique that already makes a serious issue of Tattenham Corner, even if you disregard his struggle for early rhythm over the wide open spaces of the Knavesmire. But Libertarian certainly deserves to take his chance for a yard that has succeeded where so many with deeper resources have failed, namely in producing a colt capable of holding off the Irish even in a trial.

As more fancied rivals fanned alongside each other in the long straight, seemingly in a collective quest for mediocrity, the 33-1 outsider gradually worked his way through the gears for William Buick until hitting the front a furlong out and grinding a little over a length clear of Trading Leather, with Indian Chief close up in third. So it was that Elaine Burke of Leyburn was able to relegate both the trainers who dominate the Derby picture, Jim Bolger and Aidan O'Brien, to lower tiers of the podium. In offering Libertarian at 25-1, from 100-1, Coral did not anticipate her doing the same at Epsom.

Together with her spouse and assistant, Karl, Elaine nonetheless warrants credit for persevering here with a colt who had beaten three rivals for a Pontefract maiden only last month, before being well beaten at Sandown.

"Sandown was a nonsense of a race for him," Karl explained. "Unfortunately Phil [Makin] got stuck outside a horse that was hanging badly and he drifted out. He's such a green horse, big and backward, which is why we came back today to give him more experience. Not having had many Derby horses, or Dante horses even, you are tilting at windmills at bit. So it's a great day for the yard, and everyone connected with the horse."

Even so, Bolger can seldom have been so gratified to finish second. The only thing the winner truly has in common with his unbeaten Derby favourite is their sire, New Approach. Ladbrokes now offer Dawn Approach at even money, from 5-4. Asked for his view of the trials, Bolger dryly avowed that the only ones that mattered had been run back home at Coolcullen.

Secret Number did nothing to salvage Godolphin from its present nightmare, toiling into sixth of eight, but at least fared better than Greatwood, who was never travelling. If one Highclere syndicate may now have to forget about the Derby, another clings to hope as Telescope responds to treatment for the setback that prevented him coming here. He is likely to test the water in a racecourse gallop next week.

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Dawn Approach hardens as Derby favourite after Libertarian Dante shock

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Dawn Approach hardens as Derby favourite after Libertarian Dante shock

Friday, May 17, 2013

By Tom Peacock

Dawn Approach hardened as Derby favourite after 33-1 shot Libertarian won the Dante Stakes at York yesterday.

While Libertarian did not make much of an impact in the Investec Derby market, the man allowed to smile widely was Jim Bolger, who saddled Trading Leather for second but now sees his unbeaten 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach as short as even-money favourite with many bookmakers.

Libertarian has always been held in high regard and showed rich promise when landing a maiden on his debut at Pontefract last month, but he would have been largely ignored due to finishing only fourth in the Sandown Classic Trial, when admittedly unlucky.

Dashing Star cut out the running with Trading Leather on his tail but the race, which has seen nine winners progress to Epsom glory, was still to develop in earnest by the two-furlong pole.

With Aidan OBrien pocketing every Derby warm-up of the last fortnight, Indian Chief was the 11-4 favourite, but the trainers son Joseph did not receive an immediate response when he had found some space and was passed by Libertarian and William Buick on his inside.

Buick had been one of the first to start pushing but his mount ended up forging a length and a quarter clear of the plucky Trading Leather, with Indian Chief three-quarters of a length further back in third.

It is a great win for the yard and everyone connected with the horse, said Karl Burke.

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Dante Delight for Leyburn trainer Elaine Burke as Libertarian springs York Racecourse shock

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Dante Delight for Leyburn trainer Elaine Burke as Libertarian springs York Racecourse shock

5:41pm Thursday 16th May 2013 in Horse racing By Steve Carroll, Sports reporter

LIBERTARIAN became the first Yorkshire trained winner of the Betfred Dante Stakes for nearly 50 years as he sprung a 33-1 surprise in the 150,000 contest at York Racecourse.

Not since Ballymarais, in 1965, trained by Snowy Gray in Beverley, has the county achieved success in the leading trial for the Derby at Epsom but the three-year-old, the charge of Leyburn trainer Elaine Burke, tore up the form book.

Crushing the aspirations of a series of fancied runners, including Middleham colleague Mark Johnstons Windhoek, jockey William Buick pounced with Libertarian up the far rail to beat Trading Leather by a length and a quarter.

The victory was all the more remarkable because the pair had struggled in the opening stages of the mile and a quarter Group 2 contest.

But Libertarian performed when it mattered most and now all roads lead to the Surrey Downs, where the colt will look to become the first northern trained winner of the Derby since Dante, the horse this race was named after, at Newmarket in 1945.

Bookies made him a general 20-1 shot for Classic glory, with New Approach continuing to head the market as a short priced 5-4 favourite.

Burke said: I think the extra two furlongs (at Epsom) will be to his advantage but then hes a baby and, the way the track is, we might have to go up the High Moor at Middleham and go the opposite way round, which is downhill, just to get a bit more experience for him.

I am quite shocked really, I didnt think he was going to get up. You often think you are going to be tailed off last with him but hes so laid back, and doesnt really know what it is all about, until he gets the horses running around him and then off he goes.

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Libertarian stays on best to claim shock win in Dante Stakes

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William Buick riding Libertarian (right) win The Betfred Dante Stakes at York. Photograph: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

Libertarian caused a huge shock when staying on best of all to win the Betfred Dante Stakes at York.

All eight runners had something of a chance two furlongs out, but the unheralded Libertarian had been off the bridle for some time.

Sent off at 33 to 1, William Buick moved to the inside on Elaine Burkes colt and he powered home to beat Jim Bolgers Trading Leather, with Aidan OBriens Indian Chief, the 11 to 4 favourite, back in third.

Dashing Star took them along with Trading Leather not far behind, but two furlongs out Ghurair quickened into the lead and looked sure to play a part in the finish.

The previously unbeaten Windhoek threw down a challenge but the race had still to develop in earnest.

Joseph OBrien tried to find a way through on Indian Chief but he did not quicken up as impressively as the winner, who was well beaten behind Patrick Prendergasts Sugar Boy in the Sandown Classic Trial.

To his credit, Trading Leather stayed on again, a length and a quarter away, and Bolger is likely to be the happiest behind the Burkes as his Dawn Approach was cut across the board for the Investec Derby on June 1st.

Karl Burke, the winning trainers husband and assistant, said: It is a great win for the yard and everyone connected with the horse.

Hes a proper horse and having not had many (Derby) horses, or Dante horses even, you are tilting at windmills at bit. We have always thought a lot of him.

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Joy for Yorkshire and Bolger as Libertarian storms to brilliant Dante victory

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By Marcus Townend

PUBLISHED: 13:07 EST, 16 May 2013 | UPDATED: 13:07 EST, 16 May 2013

Outsider Libertarian, trained by Elaine Burke in Middleham, gave Yorkshire its first winner of the Betfred Dante Stakes for 48 years but it was Irish trainer Jim Bolger who was wearing the biggest smile afterwards.

The 33-1 Dante winner is a 20-1 shot for the Investec Derby on June 1 but Ladbrokes also cut Bolgers unbeaten Dawn Approach to Evens favourite with potential stamina worries looking the only thing standing between the colt and Epsom glory.

Storming to victory: Libertarian, ridden by William Buick, wins the Betfred Dante Stakes

Bolgers Trading Leather was beaten a length and a quarter in the last serious Derby trial, and asked if hes seen anything to worry his 2,000 Guineas winner, he replied: 'The only trials that matter were run at Coolcullen (his stable) and Im ecstatic with them.'

Inexperienced Libertarian, like Dawn Approach a son on New Approach, won on his debut at Pontefract last season but had been badly carried wide by a fading horse when beaten almost nine lengths by Sugar Boy in last months Sandown Classic trial.

The nightmare journey cost jockey Philip Makin the mount and William Buick, on board, will keep the mount at Epsom.

Big win: William Buick rides Libertarian (right) to victory on Thursday

Karl Burke, assistant to his wife, said: 'The idea was that whoever rode him today rides him in the Derby and William has jumped off and said hes probably going to be the best English horse in the race.

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Libertarian produces Dante upset

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Middleham-based couple Elaine and Karl Burke became the first trainers from the county to win the Knavesmire's important Classic trial since Snowy Gray's Ballymarais back in 1962.

While Libertarian did not make much of an impact in the Investec Derby market, the man allowed to smile widely was Jim Bolger, who saddled Trading Leather for second but now sees his unbeaten 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach as short as even-money favourite with many bookmakers.

Libertarian has always been held in high regard and showed rich promise when landing a maiden on his debut at Pontefract last month, but he would have been largely ignored due to finishing only fourth in the Sandown Classic Trial, when admittedly unlucky.

Dashing Star cut out the running with Trading Leather on his tail but the race, which has seen nine winners progress to Epsom glory, was still to develop in earnest by the two-furlong pole.

With Aidan O'Brien pocketing every Derby warm-up of the last fortnight, Indian Chief was the 11/4 favourite, but the trainer's son Joseph did not receive an immediate response when he had found some space and was passed by Libertarian and William Buick on his inside.

Buick had been one of the first to start pushing but his mount ended up forging a length and a quarter clear of the plucky Trading Leather, with Indian Chief three-quarters of a length further back in third.

"It is a great win for the yard and everyone connected with the horse," said Karl Burke.

"I didn't think he should be 33/1 - I did get some 50s on Wednesday!

"He's a proper horse and having not had many (Derby) horses, or Dante horses even, you are tilting at windmills at bit.

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