Five winners amid Covid-19 crossfire: Geraghty reflects on Cheltenham Festival

First published on March 22, 2020

We should be starting with Epatante, the mare who turned a terrible Champion Hurdle into a much better one. Or the way in which he cajoled Champ to the most unlikely of victories in the RSA.

We should be giving out stink about that pesky Paul Townend, who deprived him of being the leading rider at Cheltenham for a third time on countbacks. We should already be eulogising over his five festival winners last week and we should be doing it face-to-face, but nothing is normal anymore. Our conversations are consumed by coronavirus these days, so the Covid-19 crisis is where we begin. You know the way it is now.