Green tinge for Irish at Cheltenham but only one win

If there is one thing worse than having to go through St Patrick’s Day and all its tacky manifestations every year, it is surely having to do it twice.

The Cheltenham Festival hasn’t overlapped with Ireland’s national holiday since 2011, but organisers at the Prestbury Park course haven’t let that stop them from designating day three as “St Patrick’s Thursday” this past three years.

There were, therefore, premature smatterings of sickly green garbs to be found amidst the usual, well, sickly tweed threads that normally passes for fashion when it comes to a day out at the nags.