Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, looks back on his first Cheltenham Festival…and offers some tipping advice

Robert Cooper

Time is a jet plane, it moves too fast,” warbled Bob Dylan many years ago and how truly the great minstrel’s words resonate amidst a truly extraordinary 12 months. But, like the first snowdrop of spring, the Cheltenham Festival arrives on our doorsteps once again, inevitable but this year stripped of its exuberance, taking place behind locked gates, empty grandstands and the absence of the most important ingredient of such a...