Ben Morgan takes a welcome pre-Festival detour to all-weather

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The Beast from the East teamed up with Storm Emma as they took it in turns to hammer the country with snow and ice in the run up to the Festival, but I wasn’t going to spend my time over-thinking Cheltenham. I instead decided to swot up on the allweather action and went to work.
Eagle eyed loyal readers of this column will remember me waxing lyrical about Headway last year, a runner up in the Coventry who looked set to put his mark on the two-year-old division of 2017. It didn’...