WHAT BASE AREN'T WE COVERING? (Why A 5 Day Cheltenham Festival Isn’t Needed.)
Seen by many as the pinnacle of the national hunt season four days in March, when the racing world fixates on a big hill in Gloucestershire, is the Cheltenham Festival In my younger and more naive days I often wondered why organisers opted to host the festival from Tuesday to Friday and neglected perhaps the biggest betting day of any week, a Saturday? Was it perhaps to avoid clashing with football? My thinking was that any racing we then saw on the Saturday often seemed some