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Wed 07 Jul 2007Oxx hoping for upswingin fortunesJohn Oxx is hopeful Arch Swing can change her luck for the better when she takes on older horses for the first time in today's Group One Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket.The Newmarket 1,000 Guineas runner-up had excuses in her two starts since that classic, injuring a muscle leaving the stalls in the Irish Guineas and being unlucky in running when fourth in the Coronation Stakes.