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LIONHEARTED FLYER ALWAYS GAVE HIS BEST

YESTERDAY’S HEROES
Graham Buddry looks back on the Cheltenham heroics of the front-running Dublin Flyer

Graham Buddry
To older National Hunt fans the first major race of the season will always be the Mackeson in the same way other top handicaps will be the Hennessy and the Whitbread no matter who is sponsoring them and what they are now called.
Cheltenham stage two big early season handicaps, both around 2½ miles, first on the Old course in the middle of November and the second on the New course four weeks later.
Mackeson were the first sponsors of the race back in 1960 and kep...

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