The English can pout or they can pony up: Willie Mullins is going nowhere
FRONTRUNNER: Willie Mullins again has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal for Cheltenham. Pic: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy
“After a lapse of many years, the Cheltenham steeplechases and hurdle races were revived with a two-day meeting on Wednesday and Thursday at Prestbury Park … and judging from the large attendance and the heavy entries, the revival is a happy augury for future success, and bids fair to once more set Cheltenham among those of the best sporting National Hunt meetings in the West of England.”
Those were the words printed on the pages of the Gloucester Journal on Saturday, April 12, 1902, after Prestbury Park, then owned by William Baring Bingham and previously used as a stud farm, saw a return of an official two-day meeting.
