Cheltenham Festival is here again

In Horseracing in the UK, the Cheltenham Festival is one of the biggest and most prestigious meeting in the national hunt race calendar. Over £500 mill is wagered during this week of races, and prizes are second only to the Grand National. Of course it's a great day out for the family too I am assured!

So lucky old me has been fortunate enough to win tickets for the cheltenham festival tomorrow (thorough a caption competition - perhaps my luck changed because my only ever previous claim to being "lucky" was winning a Ski Holiday, it's next month!) - so I'll be heading to Cheltenham on the train and hopefully we'll have a sunny day to to accompany my free beer tab!

Expect a trip report and some pics of sweaty horses in a subsequent blog post! Horses , odds and anything to do with and sportsbetting is an alien world to me, however I do like a good day trip [and free beer!] and I'll try anything once!