Charlie Deutsch felt the buzz of the Cheltenham Festival long before he ever had realistic designs on riding at it.
He grew up “about 40 minutes up the road” and used to visit the track regularly with his father, while a close friendship with the Twiston-Davies family meant that by his early teens he had already experienced the high of Gold Cup success at close-quarters, trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies saddling the winner of one of the great renewals in 2010.
