Cheltenham Festival: What’s it like to ride in Champion Chase? ‘I felt like I was driving a Rolls Royce - they all had flat tyres’

Only a tiny proportion of those at the Cheltenham Festival this week will have ever sat on a horse of any description, let alone one good enough to run in a Champion Chase, so it is just as well that people like Mick Fitzgerald are around to let the rest of us know what it’s like.