Gordon Elliott: 'People say Cheltenham isn’t everything but Cheltenham is everything'
Trainer Gordon Elliott string on the gallops on Monday morning ahead of the 2023 Cheltenham Festival. Picture: Healy Racing
The group of Irish racing press amble past Spring Valley, Hen’s Ring and The Duck Walk, up the incline to the now familiar viewing area at the end of the rising gallop chiselled out of Meath soil along with the rest of a pristine paradise for premium jump horses.
This remarkable training centre was once a greenfield site and has been plucked from the mind’s eye of Gordon Elliott, who leads the way towards the lookout, sharing small talk.
