The Chultman Festival, just days before lockdown, was one of the racing calendars most

anticipated weeks of the year.

It's a little bit like Christmas for us, really, you know.

The town itself and all the local villages and the pubs

they're all geared up for us it's a fantastic time of year a quarter of a million people

attended but as a shadow of coronavirus was creeping across the country should

they have been there at all?

The racing world can accuse of often being in a bit of a bubble,

but I can assure you it was the topic of conversation at all times.

Was the government slow off the mark? Did events such as a

Cheltenham festival help the virus to spread across the country? As pressure

amounts for an independent inquiry we talked of four people who were there on the day of the

Gold Cup.

At the end of the day no one was actually forced to go to Chaldland.

If you were 75 in your asthmatic and you went to chalm, well, you know, that would have been a

bit of a silly thing to do.

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I'm Manveen Rana.

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