Winning ticket drought at wet Cheltenham opener

SOMEONE who will go nameless for the moment told us Khyber Kim couldn’t be beaten in the Cheltenham opener.

Upon this advice, a hefty £20 was put on to win. Turned out, he could be beaten. And was. Badly.

To the second race, and word reached us yesterday morning from the racecourse gallops, via our early-rising Evening Echo colleagues, that Cork-based trainer Liam Burke was sweet on Thyne Again.