CHELTENHAM: Mullins and Ruby give the bookies a bashing

IT WAS only when the last race ended and the snaking columns of car lights began to illuminate the roads out of Prestbury Park and up towards Cleeve Hill that realisation dawned that we get to do it all again today.

And tomorrow. And the day after.

The Cheltenham Festival really is the gift that keeps on giving, and it was Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh vying for the lead role of Santa Claus on a day when the weather was more December than March.