Almost exactly a year after his career looked under threat Gordon Elliott is readying his biggest ever team for the Cheltenham festival in a fortnight.
Up to 55 horses are being prepared for the most high-profile week of the racing year, representing a remarkable transformation in fortune for the man who turns 44 on Wednesday.
That Elliott has returned seamlessly as a central festival figure testifies to his capacity for training winners, which has never been questioned, and his strength of character – which definitely was.
If quite a number of the most fervent critics of that infamous image of him sitting on a dead horse now sheepishly look back at the hysteria generated by what w …
- March 1, 2022
