Despite the Cotswolds categorically booming — you can’t go a week without reading a headline about Jeremy Clarkson’s pub, another A-list American escaping Trump and to Ellen DeGeneres, or learning that the profits from the Oasis reunion tour may well be invested in local real estate — Cheltenham Festival, highlight of the UK’s jumps racing calendar, struggled to draw in the numbers this year; the Racing Post reported crowd sizes were down 10,000.
