Graham Buddry explains why some riders are better over fences than hurdles – and on the New or Old course

CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL FOCUS
Soon after Cheltenham last year I was asked to explain why some jockeys are better with hurdlers than chasers, or the other way around, and what further difference it could make over the two different courses at Cheltenham as well as simply in which way are the two courses so different. I tried to put it in coherent terms and I hope that comes across here too.
Most of us did some form of athletics at school and the difference in facing a hurdle or a fence...