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Simon Nott in nostalgic mood - but ‘the game’s still great, just different’

Business was brisk for the bookies on Haldon Hill

HEAVITREE BREWERY RACEDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2025
Here’s my local track Exeter, fresh from three days at Cheltenham where I’d been on duty with Star Sports and enjoyed a fantastic Paddy Power meeting. Back when it was the Mackeson my first experience of a racecourse was Cheltenham back in 1983. It was the betting ring that hooked me back then, what a place it was in those days, a real jungle, vibrant and financially dangerous i...

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