Hoorah for winter!

WHAT IS THE POINT OF SUMMER? CRICKET, I grant you. But other than that it’s essentially just months without football and jump racing. Life comes alive again in October when the football season has started to take shape and you can start properly anticipating the return of proper National Hunt racing. It’s a wonderful thought that there are now only four months until Cheltenham. Critics argue it deforms the whole season because even Grade 1 races such as the King George on Boxing Day are viewed in the context of what race the winner will run in at the festival. I’ve always thought that a bizarre criticism, like saying that athletics is deformed by having the Olympics. It’s a trite cliché that the Cheltenham Festival is racing’s Olympics, but the…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2024

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