Nama escapee Sean Mulryan completes his return as he wins his own sponsored race
and artist Guggi sprinkled some showbiz over the winners’ enclosure as members of Mulryans’ winning party, joining Cowen, Bailey and others on the podium after the prize-giving for a photo.“It was great, wasn’t it?” he said, beaming.
“That was a very beautiful and exciting moment,” said an elated Guggi, at his second Cheltenham, having made his biggest bet on a horse . “I just wanted to keep jumping up and down.” Sheridan – on a winning high – went deeper, tracing the Irish love of Cheltenham and Ireland’s proud ownership of horses back to Napoleonic times.
“I think it is the first real business in Ireland,” he said. “It is kind of weird, like a mystic thing.”“It is a mess,” he said, admitting he was watching proceedings in the House of Commons “a little bit”.Mick Bailey, who won on a “few bob each way”, said he was “totally disillusioned” with British politicians over Brexit. Cheltenham was “a great way” to bring Irish and English people together, he said.
Proving his point, a few hours later the same winners’ enclosure was filled with Royals and the cream of the English horsey set celebrating odds-on favourite Altior winning a record-equalling 18th successive win over jumps in the“We are two small islands living together and we should be co-operating with each other instead of putting sticks and stalls in our way,” said Bailey.
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