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| Queen cancels visit to the races | Queen cancels visit to the races |
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| The Queen has cancelled an afternoon at the races because of a bad back, Buckingham Palace has said. | The Queen has cancelled an afternoon at the races because of a bad back, Buckingham Palace has said. |
| The 80-year-old monarch had planned to attend the races at Newmarket. She will still be attending a lunch given by the Stewards at the Jockey Club. | The 80-year-old monarch had planned to attend the races at Newmarket. She will still be attending a lunch given by the Stewards at the Jockey Club. |
| The Queen had to pull out of a trip to Arsenal's football stadium on Thursday after doctors advised her to cut back on her busy schedule. | The Queen had to pull out of a trip to Arsenal's football stadium on Thursday after doctors advised her to cut back on her busy schedule. |
| She strained a muscle in her back while holidaying at Balmoral in the summer. | She strained a muscle in her back while holidaying at Balmoral in the summer. |
| Doctors are taking it on a day-by-day basis Buckingham Palace spokeswoman | |
| The Suffolk racecourse had planned to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday with races named after horses owned by the monarch. | The Suffolk racecourse had planned to celebrate the Queen's 80th birthday with races named after horses owned by the monarch. |
| Although she will miss the racing, she will be spending two hours at the birthday lunch. | Although she will miss the racing, she will be spending two hours at the birthday lunch. |
| A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "The Queen is going to attend lunch at the Jockey Club in Newmarket but she's not going to the races. | A Buckingham Palace spokeswoman said: "The Queen is going to attend lunch at the Jockey Club in Newmarket but she's not going to the races. |
| "There will be no standing around. Doctors are taking it on a day-by-day basis." | "There will be no standing around. Doctors are taking it on a day-by-day basis." |
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| The Queen, who is a keen horse racing fan and reads the Racing Post every morning, was to have been accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh. | |
| The Duke stood in for his wife at Arsenal's new multimillion-pound Emirates Stadium on Thursday, telling staff and players that she was "very disappointed" not to be there. | |
| She has been told to scale down her schedule by doctors after returning from her first trip to the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia last week. | |
| Managing director of Newmarket Racecourses, Lisa Hancock, said staff were disappointed the Queen would not be attending the racing but wished her a "speedy recovery". |