March madness as punters head for the races

THE March hares are in the ha'penny place. When it comes to seasonally inspired madness, the Cheltenham faithful win with several furlongs to spare.

No sooner is the credit card cleared and the bank manager calmed after Christmas than they're heading for debt and disapproval all over again.

They left a wet, cold Ireland for an icy cold British midlands when anyone with even the vaguest sense of meteorology would be heading somewhere south of the Canaries.