Big crowd for Gold Cup day

A massive crowd of 66,767 basked in glorious sunshine on the final afternoon of the new-look four-day Cheltenham Festival.

Big crowd for Gold Cup day
Fri, 18 Mar, 2005 - 18:41

A massive crowd of 66,767 basked in glorious sunshine on the final afternoon of the new-look four-day Cheltenham Festival.

The attendance on each of the first three days had been down compared with last year’s meeting, but the summer weather brought racegoers out in their droves on totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup day.

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