Ben Morgan looks back on his jumps festival punting highlights and onwards to three big Flat fancies

After yet another ‘nearly’ week at Cheltenham I was itching to get stuck into Aintree which so often rewards the hard luck stories from a month previous.
I bought my Dad a ticket as his/my Christmas present so we made the journey up there full of hope and expectation on Day 1. The opening race went the way of Il Etait Temps for the Willie Mullins team who improved for the step up in trip to turn over the hot favourite Grey Dawning whilst my speculative outside punt on Colonel Harry didn’t pa...