Dave Smith will no longer act as a racecourse judge, following his mistake last week in declaring a hasty dead-heat when, as was announced on Monday, the photo-finish print showed that one of the horses was a clear winner.
The magic of Cheltenham, though, is that it retains the time-honoured man-to-man combat and in wedges of cash and credit markers no longer seen on European racecourses outside the Cotswolds in March and Galway in August.
"Cardiff living beyond their means, Swansea dodging relegation out of the Football League, Wrexham in and out of the high court every week to prove they actually owned the Racecourse - no sane person would have predicted that we'd have progressed this far in just 10 years.
I no longer crave the speed of the racecourse, although I still regularly ride my Triumph Speed Triple.
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In any case, if one tires of the drama on the racecourse, there is no shortage of entertainment in the stands.
While some will be sceptical about the substance of his exertions, the fact remains that this was only the third time Camelot has been seen on a racecourse and, with no fewer than 10 stablemates sharing his gallop, the first time he has had more than four horses for company.
In that case, there is a good chance that you will have already been at the pub for hours or, if you are very lucky, at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, with no plans to be anywhere else.
Although the statue stands beside a racecourse, the horse has no rider.
Andrew Cooper, clerk of the course at Epsom, said yesterday: "Say that Epsom was opened as a new racecourse tomorrow, there would be no way that the limit would be fixed at 30.
