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Cheltenham Festival in need of a new crop of stars in absence of Constitution Hill

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It says much for the extent to which Cheltenham dominates the National Hunt landscape that the most talked about performance prior to this year’s Festival did not come in a race at all.

It is the morning of February 27, a fortnight out exactly from the start of the sport’s biggest Jumps meeting, and leading trainer is putting a number of his Festival hopefuls through their final paces in a gallop open to the media at Kempton Park. As two

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