BOOKIES BASHED
Daily Star|March 16, 2024
Punters the real Champs as fave romps to victory
JERRY LAWTON
BOOKIES BASHED

PUNTERS cleaned out bookies as hot favourite Galopin Des Champs won his second successive Gold Cup and launched into a champagne and Guinness frenzy.

Jubilant fans partied nose-to-nose in a rammed Guinness Village at Cheltenham racecourse as they necked £ 1.2million worth of booze.

Most of the 68,500 crowd seemed to have backed the super-horse which started the showpiece race the shortest-priced favourite for 20 years and ended it a legend.

This story is from the March 16, 2024 edition of Daily Star.

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