The Italian Emanuele Gaudiano is on a roll in Mechelen. Winning yesterday's 5* Opening Class of this Christmas Jumping, the Sires of the World, seems to have ushered in a week of splendor. To win this class he could count on the 10-year-old Hanoverian stallion Crack Balou, whom Gaudiano guided from young talent to this level himself. Here's what the winner had to tell us in hindsight of the class ...

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