Eerie pictures of empty stands and deserted crowd enclosures show the stark reality of Covid restrictions on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival. The four-day horse racing spectacle in Gloucestershire – which attracted 251,684 fans last year – is taking place behind closed doors for the first time in its 161-year history. Drone pictures … Read more
Cheltenham set to lose £100m in revenue with festival taking place behind-closed-doors… while prize-money has also been cut by 25 per cent as region counts the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic Cheltenham Festival will take place behind-closed-doors due to the pandemic The region is set to lose out on £100million in revenue because of the … Read more
ITV Racing’s Oli Bell believes there’s no better stage than the Cheltenham Festival to illustrate ‘everything that is great’ about the sport. The horse racing industry has been left reeling after a photo of top National Hunt trainer Gordon Elliott sitting astride a dead horse was leaked on social media last month. Three-time Grand National winner … Read more
A year ago today, the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic had yet to fully hit home with Britons. While more than 3,000 had died in China by March 12, 2020, there had been just ten deaths in the UK. Blissfully unaware of the scale of the carnage to come, tens of thousands flocked to … Read more
Lockdown seems to have lasted a lifetime, and the days of packing into a pub, train carriage, shop or theatre seem but a distant memory. Yet it was only a year ago that coronavirus really began to register on the public’s radar as deaths reached double figures. On March 12, 2020, there had only been … Read more
Gordon Elliott’s horses could run at the Cheltenham Festival under a caretaker with disgraced trainer set to be handed a ban on Friday over shocking photo of him sitting on a dead horse Plan to allow a caretaker to take the licence at Elliott’s stable in County Meath Trainer faces a ban at an Irish Horseracing … Read more
Mr Superdry’s super-chic retreat: The delights of fashion tycoon Julian Dunkerton’s Cheltenham townhouse hotel The George in Cheltenham is owned by Julian Dunkerton, the entrepreneur behind the Superdry fashion chain The hotel stretches across five Grade II listed townhouses – all 46 bedrooms are ‘joyful’ with rain showers While it doesn’t have its own restaurant, … Read more
REVEALED: Covid restrictions mean owners are set to be BARRED from next month’s Cheltenham Festival – with organisers still reeling from backlash from allowing 250,000 spectators into the 2020 showpiece Cheltenham has one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates in the country However, national restrictions likely to remain in place when lockdown is lifted Irish … Read more
Jockey Gina Andrews taken to hospital after suffering a sickening fall before being kicked in the FACE by a horse during a race at Cheltenham An amateur jockey has been taken to hospital after she was kicked in the face by a horse during a race at Cheltenham Gina Andrews fell in the 12.40 Catesby … Read more
A council worker was left in intensive care with coronavirus days after attending the controversial Cheltenham Races which went ahead despite first-wave Covid cases spiralling. Ex-soldier Graham Smith, who works for Liverpool city council, travelled to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in the middle of March with a group of friends. He started feeling ill just one day after … Read more