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OCEANPORT, N.J. -- The last month has been good for trainer Mark Casses stable. He won the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot with Tepin, the $500,000 Penn Mile over males with Catch a Glimpse, and the training title at the Churchill Downs spring meet. On Sunday, Casse added a victory in the Grade 1 United Nations at Monmouth Park to his recent successes.With Florent Geroux aboard, World Approval parlayed a perfect stalking trip behind 75-1 longshot Cement Clement into a 1-1/4-length victory in the $327,000 United Nations, a 1-3/8-mile turf race. Cement Clement set even fractions of 24.29, 50.21, 1:14.72, and 1:39.04 while World Approval tracked him in second.Money Multiplier, also forwardly placed, moved closer on the backstretch. He lodged a bid three wide on the far turn as World Approval went after the pacesetter, but was unable to cut into the winners margin in the stretch.Wake Forest did the best of any of the closers to finish third, 1-3/4 lengths behind Money Multiplier.We sat the perfect trip, Geroux said. On paper it looked like Cement Clement would be going to the lead, so we let him set the pace for us. When I asked him at the quarter pole, he responded nicely.World Approval paid $7.40 as the second betting choice in the 10-horse field. He completed the course over good ground in 2:14.66.In his prior two starts, World Approval finished second, beaten a neck, in the Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day and third, beaten 2-1/4 lengths, in the Grade 1 Manhattan at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes Day. A 4-year-old gelded son of Northern Afleet, he is now 6 for 15 with earnings of $853,450. He is owned by the Live Oak Plantation of Charlotte Weber.Trainer Chad Brown had three starters in the United Nations: Money Multiplier, Wake Forest, and Mr Maybe, who finished seventh.I thought they all got pretty good trips, Brown said. The winner was very good today. My first two horses just werent good enough to run him down. With Mr Maybe, we knew we were up against it coming off a four-month layoff. Wake Forest was on the muscle in the paddock, prancing with his neck bowed.He got worked up in the paddock, that was disappointing to see, Brown said. He hasnt done that before. He put in a decent run, but we know he is better than that.Wake Forest broke slowly for the third straight race. He made a middle move to a contending position on the backstretch under John Velazquez, and then finished willingly.We know he doesnt break, Velazquez said. On the second turn, two horses backed up on me and I went around them on the backstretch. 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I love being around, I love being able to give back, Khalil, 30, tells ESPN. Ive been in this sport for a long time, and hopefully after the Olympic Games I can come away with a good result, or regardless, if I dont, I still want to come back and give back.You came in and you saw only the older kids, but there are so many young ones here training who want to be Olympians and aspire to be so much better than what they are now. I just love giving back to them, the young ones and the older ones; its a really good feeling.Khalils Olympic story doesnt subscribe to the typical Australian narrative. He came away from the 2012 London Olympic Games in fourth place after a disappointing bronze-medal match, but the depth of his disappointment is probably lost on everyone but his family and those who come to sweat it out at his Hoxton Park training facility in western Sydney.Thats just the way he likes it, and its really the only support hes ever known. Little wonder, too, since his childhood years were spent adjusting to life in Australia after his family fled Lebanon amid the countrys instability.[It was] extremely tough, Khalil says. As I get older now I do like to find about our history with the family. And my mum, you know she tears up every time she tells me the story because my dad actually ran off without us at the start to actually build up some money.So we were actually all alone while my mum was pregnant with me; my father was actually here in Australia trying to build some money and establish himself here and my mum was alone [in Lebanon] with the three kids about to give birth to me.I remember my mum telling me, my uncle actually called my father and said, You need to get your kids out of here, its crazy, and he could hear gunshots and so on happening. So you know he had to scrape every piece of coin he could get together and get us out and, yeah, it was a really, really horrific moment of our life.There were no gunshots whizzing in Sydney, but Khalil, his parents, five brothers and one sister still endured some hairy moments.My brother actually burned our house down, Khalil says.I remember it like it was yesterday. I was on my little pink bike riding up and down the street and I remember riding and stopping in front of the house and a blaze going through the window, my sister running into the house. She says she slapped him and ran him out of the house because he lit the couch on fire with a lighter; and if you meet Sami [Samir] and you get to know his character you would be like, yeah, he would light anything on fire, its the way he is.My mum was out shopping on a bus because she didnt have a [drivers] licence, and [she] got off the bus and her house was literally on the ground.The Khalil brothers played all kinds of sports. But eventually the sibling rivalry reached a tipping point, and tired of her sons fly kicks from the family lounge, Khalils mother pointed her brood in the direction of the nearest gym.We grew up playing [rugby] league in the front yard, backyard cricket, and [then] taekwondo came about.You know, we grew up watchhing a lot of Jackie Chan, [Jean-Claude] Van Damme [movies] and all this sort of stuff, and my mum got sick of us bashing each other around the house; thats all we did.dddddddddddd We were doing fly kicks off the couch and she was fed up. My dad was working 16-hour days and my mum was trying to balance cooking, cleaning, the boys.So she found the nearest taekwondo school and said, Go bash some other kids, and we did. We went into our first competition and got to punch on with other kids, and we werent getting in trouble for it and I was in love. And ever since then I just havent looked back.These days, Khalil continues to punch on with one of his brothers -- Master Ali. Ali Khalil, 33, is known as Master Ali Khalil in a taekwondo environment. The duo travelled together to London as part of Australias taekwondo team, and will do the same thing in Rio.Ali has been by Safwans side throughout his taekwondo journey, making technique adjustments here and offering words of encouragement there. Its an athlete-coach relationship seldom found these days, yet it seems to work perfectly for the Khalil brothers -- the odd stern discussion aside.Its tough at times, Safwan tells ESPN of his unique training setup.Hes my older brother and Ive got all the respect for him, and as weve grown up, anything hes told me to do ... Ive bowed my head and I know Ill do it. But sometimes we disagree on things and we absolutely lose our [temper], especially during [the Islamic fast] Ramadan.Theres times when were both hungry, edgy [during Ramadan], and hell tell me something and Im like, No, I dont want to do it. But were that close and that strong that anything that happens in our relationship, give it 20 minutes and were back the way we were half-an-hour ago.Its got its blessings in a way because we get to work for each other, because anything he tells me to do is absolutely in my best interest and he knows me like a book. And I know everything he does for me is 100 percent for me and I trust him 100 percent, so its fantastic and I love it. Weve had to work at it a lot of the time, but now that were getting older and a lot more mature its easier for us.The extent of this family affair really hits home when you consider that Safwans partner, Carmen Marton, is one of Australias female taekwondo competitors in Rio.Khalil describes Marton as the strongest woman you will ever meet and says there is more than just a friendly rivalry between them even though they are 100 percent behind each other in their pursuit of gold.Motivated by a desire to right his London competition attitude that Khalil says resembled a sulking baby, there will be no sightseeing in Rio; nor will he be chasing Usain Bolt through the Olympic Village -- as he did in 2012.I think my priorities are a lot more set now, and I know what direction Im going in when I walk into Rio, he says.I walked into London this wide-eyed younger man just wanting to soak in the experience, rather than just focusing on what I need to do two minutes at a time. So Im definitely a lot wiser and just a lot more relaxed going into this competition.Whether or not those four years of added wisdom help push Khalil to a gold medal, its impossible not to admire his sporting journey.Taekwondo may be as far from the mainstream Australian sporting psyche as you can get, yet its little wonder, given the way Khalil talks about one-on-one combat, that his infectious attitude has rubbed off on a small but determined group of kids on a Tuesday night at Global Martial Arts. Its almost as if theyre one big family. Having spent a few minutes getting to know Khalil, that in no way is a surprise. ' ' '