Cheltenham 2018 waiting for superstar to emerge

Bonnie Tyler was willing to hold out for a hero ’til the end of the night, but the wait has been a bit longer here at Cheltenham.

It’s not that there has been any shortage of animals worthy of our affections, as well as flutters, at the festival. Moreso a sense that the March madness is lacking the sort of superstar that can grab the wider sporting world by the lapels and shake it.

It was a topic taken up by the course radio commentators yesterday. As the conversation trickled on there was a pool of common ground among them that we could do with one of the latest crop of undoubted stars going viral in the wider sporting sphere.