Cheltenham 2020: The roar will be primal

It’s frightening to think the illegal presence of some animal in a market in the province of Hubei, in a city most of us had never previously heard of and few will ever visit could have such a profound and deadly impact on the world.

Doing all we can to thwart the coronavirus is more important than the Cheltenham Festival or any other sporting event or leisure gathering, but what has contributed to making it a global outbreak is also what helps to make events such as the Cheltenham Festival so great.