Your Cheltenham Festival Stories

[loveracing]

Letting the whole Geneva airport know I was pissed!

Mine definitely has to be the 2014 Arctic Fire / County Hurdle.

It all started off when we got the heads up over Christmas period and lumped on at 16/1_14/1_12/1_and kept on going, even at 8/1 on the morning of the race.

Geneva Motor Shows usually lands the same week as the Fest, so we usually spend a few days in Verbier and I seem to be unsociable by burying my head into the laptop from the morning until race-day ends.

Cut the story short - I remember nearly missing my plane back because I wanted a pal to give me commentary over the phone for the race just before boarding time. I remember that if AF would go and win the County I would be 6 figures better off (and it didn't start with a 1).

All I can remember was my pal telling me "he is cutting through the field like butter, he's going to win" (jumping the last), and then all of a sudden "hang on, no, he just got blind sided".

So you can imagine the words that were coming out of my mouth after thinking I was well in. The whole airport was starring at me and I personally didn't give a dam!!!

[Istabraq]

Nice work LR, hope you made good use of the winnings..............like lost it at Aintree, Punchestown !

[MrMcGoldrick]

Great story Kev, mine is always the same one, was a follower of the Sue Smith yard and a big fan of Dominic Elsworth, I'd been watching Mister McGoldrick for about 3 years, always in top quality races against the best 2 milers around never being quite good enough, then Dom was jocked off him and he started to lose his way. The capper finally dropped him a few pounds and he was put in the Byrne plate getting weight from half a dozen lesser lights, and I got the added bonus of seeing Dom back on board. He was always handy, went clear 3 out, and ground them into the dust coming home a dozen lengths clear of the heavily gambled on fav, I was hoarse for the rest of the day from all the shouting, but that 66/1 ticket never left me mitt, that was a wonderful experience

[loveracing]

Nice work LR, hope you made good use of the winnings..............like lost it at Aintree, Punchestown !

It was only ew money.

[Istabraq]

I was on him too LR, he got too close to the last and clouted it, lost more ground than he lost by, very unlucky loser....

[loveracing]

My Synchronised Gold Cup

Synchronised Gold Cup was another good one up in Verbier and tbh, is probably my fav - No one in the chalet knew a thing about racing, but they kept hearing and watching me celebrate winners. So they all decided to have a bet and follow me on the next race, which happened to be the Synchronised Gold Cup.

They were all laughing watching him scrubbing along a long way out, all saying he's fucked, he isn't winning shit, all I can remember saying to them was "he does stay", and boy did he.

And thats how my Synchronised story was born.

[Kevloaf]

Haha LOVE those!

Has anyone got a secret horse they've been secretly chipping away at? I am open to being PM'd about it