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Good morning from Cheltenham racecourse, where all feels as it should do on the first day of the festival meeting despite the track’s admission over the weekend that the crowds are not (yet) flooding back to the meeting as many would have hoped. This is the first year of a new-look festival, with more handicaps to boost competitiveness and field sizes, and also several new measures to improve the “customer experience”, and it will presumably not be until this time next year that we get much of an idea of how it all worked out.
One of the key indicators of customer experience, of course, is whether they emerge from the most concentrated four days of betting all year with their noses in front, and Tuesday’s opening card will be a potentially crucial first engagement between punters and bookies as all four of the Grade One events have a short-priced favourite.
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