Your photos make me realise just how much I have missed physically being part of a group of people all focussed on something in common - and I'm not an especially group minded being.
Cheltenham Festival 2021
I totally agree with this - it's that feeling of shared emotion.
The highs of watching your team score a last minute winner from the stands (mind you it wouldn't have happened too often at Craven Cottage this season..), or your group of mates all having a punt on the same horse and it landing at Cheltenham/Epsom. Classic moments - let's hope the return is nigh.
Yes, the continual lack of this sort of physical socialising is having a huge impact on the mental health of a large proportion of the population I reckon.
Field sizes look smaller this year, at least on the opening day. Just eight runners in the supreme, can’t ever remember a field that small before.
I suppose in a normal year, there would be a lot of runners there just making up the numbers so they could give their owners a day out. No point doing that this year I guess.
I suppose in a normal year, there would be a lot of runners there just making up the numbers so they could give their owners a day out. No point doing that this year I guess.
88 runners declared for Tuesday, average last 5 years has been 110.Mr.Teeny wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:24 amField sizes look smaller this year, at least on the opening day. Just eight runners in the supreme, can’t ever remember a field that small before.
I suppose in a normal year, there would be a lot of runners there just making up the numbers so they could give their owners a day out. No point doing that this year I guess.
I think the owners is the main issue, possibly Brexit too as it's made it more expensive to send one from Ireland.
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