Early St Patrick’s Dayfails to gee up Irish success

All in all, it wasn’t exactly the most memorable of St Patrick’s Days for the Irish at Cheltenham yesterday.

Yep, you heard right. Paddy’s has been and gone. In this part of England at any rate. Why? Well, with Mar 17 falling outside the boundaries of the four-day event this year, organisers decided to label yesterday as St Patrick’s Thursday.

The cheek.