Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, looks ahead to one of his favourite meetings of the calendar

The old adage ‘nostalgia’s not what it used to be’ always springs to mind at this time of year as the Newmarket July Meeting, or Festival as it is now labelled, approaches. Being an Essex lad (you can always tell) Newmarket was our nearest racecourse when I was growing up near Chelmsford. Just imagine my joy if Chelmsford City had been up and running back in the day; I would have been happy as a pig in clover. Newmarket was a regular port of call for my father and I; quite ...