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Alastair Down talks to the rider of today's BetVictor Gold Cup favourite
Noel Fehily: Mr Reliable around CheltenhamCredit: Harry Trump
It is Sunday afternoon and you are digging up potatoes on your suburban London allotment. The spade strikes something metallic which a bit of scraping reveals is an unexploded 500lb bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe during the war.
When you ring the bomb squad they say "sorry mate but everyone is up in Cheshire busy with an emergency in Lower Peover".
Unfazed, you reply: "No problem, I'll get Noel Fehily to come round."
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