Cheltenham Festival a key chance for racing to escape Elliott's shadow | Greg Wood
A positive four days in Gloucestershire can start to repair the damage caused by a leading trainer sitting on a dead horseThe strangest, quietest and most surreal of Cheltenham Festivals, a meeting in front of empty stands that was beyond anyone’s imagination not much more than a year ago, will open on Tuesday with a stronger sense than ever that it is at the centre of the public gaze.It is a little over two weeks since a grotesque image emerged which showed the leading trainer Gordon Elliott sitting – and posing – on a horse that had died on his gallops. As a result, National Hunt racing begins its biggest week with its standing diminished, because of a photograph that...