TALES FROM THE BETTING RING

Simon Nott spends the day at the Cheltemham Trials

Festival Trials day, the last we get to see of Cheltenham before the maelstrom that is the Festival. The four days that seem to be anticipated, looked forward to and targeted to the exclusion of all others in the National Hunt season each year.
Is that a good thing? I’m not so sure, but that’s another conversation. As usual in recent months, I was hanging around arguably the biggest layers on course, Star Sports. When I say biggest layers, the will is always there, it’s just the lu...