Cheltenham Festival: 15 moments that make us want to turn back the clock

Fashion at cheltenham 15-3-17

(Image credit: Bill Selwyn/Stephen Sparkes)

How is the Cheltenham Festival over for another year? So many highs, a fair few lows, sun, rising stars, Tinder, tears, Guinness and a reassuring amount of tweed. Please can we do it all again?

It was worse than waiting for Christmas last Tuesday morning on the first day of the Festival

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A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.

Don’t miss our full report and analysis from the Cheltenham Festival in this week’s issue of Horse & Hound magazine (23 March 2017)