Video: Kayley Woollacott discusses 2019 Cheltenham Festival contender Lalor

Tuesday marks the start of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival as well as one of the competition’s more poignant and emotional entries as Kayley Woollacott’s Lalor competes to bring home the Racing Post Arkle.

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This is Woollacott’s first full season as a National Hunt trainer having taken over the license from her husband, Richard, who tragically died last year and she’s been speaking to Betway about her experience in readying Lalor for the competition.

The team have also been speaking to the breeder who first discovered Lalor and the bloodstock agent that sold him to Richard Woollacott about their early experiences of the horse, as well as Woollacott’s sister Steph who talks about how winning the Arkle “would change our lives”:

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