Watch out Cheltenham:  Dublin's Racing Festival is haring up on the inside rail

While their trainers run for cover, British racegoers are beginning to see the logic of sidestepping the Cheltenham festival and instead enjoying a great weekend in Dublin
Watch out Cheltenham:  Dublin's Racing Festival is haring up on the inside rail

WINNER ALRIGHT: Massive crowds at Leopardstown watch the Novice Hurdle on day one of the Dublin Racing Festival last year. 

Only three cosmic questions remain that have yet to be satisfactorily answered by mankind. Firstly, is there really a God? Secondly, why do we exist? Difficult considerations for sure, but given enough time and head space some future philosopher is bound to come up with the right answers.

The third is much trickier and profoundly complex: What’s to be done with the ‘be all, end all’ Cheltenham festival and its tendency to suck the lifeblood from the rest of the National Hunt season?

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