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Willie and Rich, you can stay in a Travelodge anytime - please go for the jugular with Lossiemouth, I beg you!
Our deputy Ireland editor thinks it would be a crying shame if the fab four didn't show up in the opening-day showpiece
It's funny how a two-year masterplan can suddenly disintegrate into a one-week project, just like that.
A whopping 24 months of construction work, building something brick by brick, something tremendously exciting, has crumbled quicker than King Of Kingsfield as they turn for home in the Unibet Champion Hurdle next week. At that stage, Lossiemouth would probably still be on the bridle but, alas, there is a fair chance we will never know. It now seems she might well have run 40 minutes earlier in the Close Brothers Mares' Hurdle.
It's no longer a five-star boutique hotel with a spa that's being erected by Willie Mullins; it's just another Travelodge.
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