Mug's Game: I'll take my two-yard tap-ins where I can get them

Enda McEvoy talks us through his better than usual opening day at Cheltenham.

EARLY EXCITEMENT: Punters watch the first race during day one of the Cheltenham Racing Festival. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

You know the drill at this stage. Four days. Fifty euro to invest per day. Object of the proceedings: to turn a small profit or, saving that, to at least have a little fun.

This, it need scarcely be stressed, is not a column for or about high rollers. Your correspondent is, unlike God, on the side of the small battalions.