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Andrew Lowrie remembers Cheltenham 1987

Andrew Lowrie

The Thinker wins the Gold Cup in 1987

The blue riband event of next month’s Cheltenham Festival is the Cheltenham Gold Cup, run over about 3m 2½f on the new course on the final fourth day of superb racing in the Cotswolds at the foot of Cleeve Hill.
First run in March 1924 on the old course, the race did not enjoy the same prestige as it does today. It was not even the feature race of the meeting in those days, that mantle fell to the National Hunt Chase. In recent times that race has als...