Xander Brett reports on jumps return at Windsor after almost two decades

The field takes an open ditch in the back straight during race six

Too often, the phrase “making history” is over-exaggerated. But in a racing context at least, there was no mistaking that a paragraph of history was being amended at Royal Windsor Racecourse on Sunday December 15, almost 5,000 racegoers reinaugurating jump racing at the venue nearly 19 years to the day since it had last been staged.
Regular National Hunt meetings ended in 1998, though Windsor took on some of Ascot’s contests in 2004 and 2005 when t...