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14th March 2017

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The Greatest Show On Turf - Champion Tuesday

By Derek Potter

The Olympic Games. The World Cup. US Presidential Elections. We are fortunate enough to have these fantastic spectacles every four years, but some events are so special the public demands them annually. Like Arsenal going into full meltdown. Like a doping allegation in the Tour de France. Like a politician with the skills of Napoleon Dynamite stealing the show on Strictly Come Dancing. But nothing like the Cheltenham Festival, when tens of thousands of British and Irish alike commence their Prestbury Park pilgrimage in the hope of winning a fortune but in the knowledge that whatever happens, it will be brilliant. I apologise for the length of this - the following days will necessarily be much shorter.

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When my Cheltenham membership badge arrived in September, I was very much looking forward to what had the potential to be a classic National Hunt season, with the prospect of the likes of Vautour, Annie Power, Faugheen, Sprinter Sacre and Min lighting up the season and in particular the Festival in March. The untimely paddock death of Vautour was a precursor to a season of horrors which has seen Sprinter Sacre retired, and Simonsig and Many Clouds joining Vautour in the stable in the sky; it's not seen Annie Power or Faugheen at all; it's seen Min twice but deprived us of a clash of future champions with Altior; and it's seen Don Cossack and Coneygree, the last two Gold Cup winners, retired injured and raced just once respectively. So many reasons to lament the past few months. And then - and then - they came for Thistlecrack too, the most exciting novice chaser since the last most exciting novice chaser in Coneygree.

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But in the atmospheric cauldron that is the Festival, new champions will be forged alongside those still standing from last year. You have the magnificent Douvan, unbeaten in his 14 starts in Britain and Ireland (the only horse to beat him was on debut in France when Konig Dax prevailed; Konig Dax raced twice afterwards, finishing 11th of 13 at Catterick before falling at Taunton). You have the unbeaten (over obstacles at least) Altior, a hot favourite to follow in Douvan's Arkle footsteps. You have the super sub of all super sub's, Vroum Vroum Mag, a Grade One winning hurdler over 2 and 3 miles, and a Grade Two winning chaser over 2m6f. We still don't know where she's going. You have the evergreen Cue Card, vying for favouritism in the Gold Cup at the grand age of 11. And (I can't not mention him) you have the ultra-consistent and ultra-game-but-never-quite-good-enough The New One, who returns for his fourth consecutive crack at the Champion Hurdle, his sixth consecutive Festival appearance and who once again threatens to render me on the verge of bankruptcy.

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