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A Golden Day at Cheltenham

And possibly an historic Treble

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Nick Boyd
Mar 14, 2025
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So good to see so many chums today, despite the sleet, cold, rain, winds, sunny spells and an ever-disappearing wifi signal that was up and down like a Trump driven stock market. (I was going to say something else, but in these modern times I can never tell whether you can mention Dockyard Lil’s knickers).

The crowd was apparently down by 20,000 in which case please explain why we still need to be herded by 5,000 more parking people all standing around doing nada.

I suspect these stewards, marshals, Gauleiter and assorted people with no legal authority, but the same manners as Venezuelan traffic cops, are there to convince the burghers of Cheltenham

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