Dominant Lossiemouth a winner as Cheltenham puts civil war on hold

Insiders worry about how to grow racing as costs rise but JP McManus continues to find winners in his 50th year in the sport No sooner had Lossiemouth lifted the roof off Cheltenham with a staggeringly dominant Champion Hurdle victory than the skies around Prestbury Park also began to brighten too. The buildup to the festival had been dominated by talk of civil war, of feuding and internecine conflict. But this was a reminder of the sport’s simple pleasures. Horse and jockey. Fence and turf. Dra