day three

CHELTENHAM, UK--Rarely has a race ever epitomised the old sporting saying, 'form is temporary, class is permanent', like the 2025 running of the G1 Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle, won by the enigma that is Bob Olinger (Ire) for a trainer and jockey combination desperately in need of a pick-me-up at the start of play on the penultimate day of the Cheltenham Festival. That Bob Olinger was available to back at 20-1 the night before this three-mile contest was symptomatic of how far he'd fallen from grace in just a few...