• ‘If you can make any adjustments that help things, you do’
Course officials at Cheltenham are taking the highly unusual step of moving a fence at the hallowed racetrack, to reduce risks for horses and jockeys at the high-profile Festival meeting next month.
One of the trickiest steeplechase fences at the home of jump racing will be moved, one of only two fences to be shifted in the past 20 years.
Written by Exclusive by Chris Cook
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/04/cheltenham-festival-changes-reduce-risk-horses-jockeys under the title “Cheltenham plan Festival fence change to reduce risks for horses and jockeys”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.