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Telly puts bins in bin: Rolf Johnson sees Festival skip to Eurovision – other things don’t change

Cheltenham runners invariably knock your eye out – as the Festival mutates from Olympics to Eurovision. Cheltenham’s all singing and dancing mega panoramic screen fills the naked eye.

Cheltenham runners invariably knock your eye out – as the Festival mutates from Olympics to Eurovision. Cheltenham’s all singing and dancing mega panoramic screen fills the naked eye.
So what if, say, Windsor’s (jumping) blocks off half the course? Not a bother; binoculars? Who needs ’em?
Anyway, nowadays the race-readers are at home, sofa surfing, ‘doing it off the telly’. Binoculars? Stacks of ’em on eBay.

There wasn’t a monitor wide enough to capture Sean Bowen and Booster Bob in Newbury’s Great-wood Chase.
The commentator occasionally gave a mention to the remote tail-ender - who isn’...

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