'We're a yard moving forward' - Twiston-Davies team ready for takeoff as a joint enterprise at Cheltenham
A new season at Cheltenham marks a new beginning for the Twiston-Davies family on Friday at a course where their surname is the first place many punters start when it comes to the October meeting.
Indeed, on this very day last year Nigel Twiston-Davies landed a 23-1 double that had his supporters singing all the way back to the Hollow Bottom in nearby Guiting Power, the scene of many a famous celebration for the Naunton trainer.
There have certainly been some good days at Cheltenham for Twiston-Davies snr, who saddled his first winner at March's festival when Arctic Kinsman landed the 1994 Supreme Novices' Hurdle and enjoyed his crowning moment when Imperial Commander won the Gold Cup in 2010.
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