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The Cheltenham Festival, Day 2: Mixin’ With The Mullins’…
Ruby Walsh, Hurricane Fly and Willie Mullins… A bookie’s worst nightmare came true on Day 1 The first day of Cheltenham lived up to all that was expected. Ruby Walsh and Willie Mullins galloped off for...
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The Cheltenham Festival Preview: Heroes Reunite
Rising like a cliff in the midst of the floods, Cleeve Hill and the mite of the Cheltenham Festival is once again upon us. The recent months may have been damper than a Majorcan wet t-shirt...
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The 2014 Cheltenham Festival Day Two: The Glory, The Drama, The Tragedy
Neither Homer, nor any of the other Ancient Greek classicists could have written a more compelling first chapter. With heart break and hard luck, starkly contrasting Herculean efforts that rewrote the...
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The 2014 Cheltenham Festival Day Three: Moore than we could ask for…
The feature race of Day Two at the Festival provided a wonderful story for all interested in sport, or for that matter anyone who just loves a wonderful fairytale. The Moore family’s pride and joy,...
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The 2014 Cheltenham Festival Day Four: Reaching the climax
The week continued with another great third day. Annie Power ran second in the World Hurdle, and although a brave effort, many were looking to the mare to get them back on an even keel for the week and...
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Cheltenham Festival Preview: The sunset of an era, and the dawn of a new one
Another year has passed, and we find ourselves standing on the eve of the wonderful Cheltenham Festival once again. The 12 months past has delivered relatively little in terms of sporting memories in...
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Cheltenham Festival, Day One: Welcome to the Willie Mullins Show
What an intriguing week stands in front of us. Day One encapsulates this perfectly, with a championship race right from the top draw (The Champion Hurdle), novices races abundant with future stars...
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Cheltenham Festival, Day Two: Annie gives bookies the Power to continue…
Well well well, what a first day to the Festival! It encapsulated everything we could have asked for…and more. By the time Douvan, Faugheen and Un De Sceaux had rolled in we were bathing in the glow of...
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Cheltenham Festival, Day Three: We Go Again….
Day two was all about the English and the punters. The bookies were hit for six in almost every contest – every good thing that shortened did so with menacing momentum, and there’s no doubt about who...
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