Opinion

Cheltenham is back. We are back. A year older. Actually, I feel 18 years older as my first was 2002, living in the Hunter’s Lodge at the top of the hill, seeing things I thought I’d never see. Best Mate. Moscow Flyer. Hors La Loi upset an upsetting Champion Hurdle. Istabraq’s farewell. Sadly, Valiramix as well. Life would never be the same.

Cheltenham now 1/5 to take place.

So it’s the day, the day-and-a-half moment.

Nothing like Middleburg, Virginia. 

Tangled up in Blue has taken over our life.

Welcome back, champ.

Each morning, I try to wake up in the dark, click on the coffee, putter around the house while everyone else sleeps. Well, everyone but the horsemen, out in the dark in barns afield.