It seems unlikely that many of the owners who gather at next week’s Cheltenham Festival will be sharing stories of their time on a picket line in South Yorkshire during the miners’ strike. But one of them at least will be able to do so, thanks to the presence of Andrew Gemmell, whose Paisley Park is widely fancied to win the Stayers Hurdle on Thursday week.
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Written by Chris Cook
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/03/cheltenham-festival-paisley-park-andrew-gemmell-stayers-hurdle under the title “Cheltenham Festival 2019: Paisley Park has owner Gemmell all a flutter”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.