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Kalashnikov can fire the opening shot in festival showdown with bookies
Keep an eye on Walsh - that's Ted not Ruby
Kalashnikov (Jack Quinlan) jumps the final flight to land the Betfair Hurdle and can follow up at CheltenhamCredit: Edward Whitaker
It is one of life's lessons that if you do not bang your own drum, nobody else will.
Recently Racing Post TV made a 15-minute film of an ageing punter and Friar Tuck lookalike – your columnist – driving across the Cotswolds to Cheltenham from his home village.
This epic – inexplicably shot too late for this year's Oscars – has proved something of a success with some 7,000 hits on a platform called YouPube and more than 45,000 views on another modern techno-hub rejoicing in the name of Facepaint or some such.
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