No Cheltenham luck for Irish at races or fashion

The Irish spent the second day at the Cheltenham Festival struggling to make up ground on the locals who claimed five of the seven races and it was a case of much the same off the track on Ladies Day.

With the sun shining and the temperatures climbing up towards the mid-teens there was even more than the usual supply of fake tan and feathers on show and the prize for best dressed went to an entrant who knows these parts better than most.

Camille Henderson, daughter of Nicky Henderson who is trainer to the Queen, was deemed to be the most sartorially savvy of the female punters with a dress purchased from Next, a fur found in a cupboard and a hat made by a friend.