Midnight hell

It was my first cheltenham festival,i can remember waking up on the thurs morning to find about a foot of snow round my ankles.We used to stop at the queens hotel in them days,or should i say there car park.The week had started of great had a good punt on  monksland at 8s returned 11/2 & now we ve got to head of home.Almighty dissapointment,was going to back midnight court in the gold cup,i think it was run in the april & i never backed it then.The Queens was full of high stakes poker & backgammen games in them days,with the london mobsters stiching up the pissed up paddys.Anyway the drinking,singing & gambling used to go on all night.Can anyone remember the dirty duck where we used to go for a steak after racing? Them 3 day festivals will always be the best,or 2 for my first experence of it.In them days the television coverage was done by the bbc,so on monday night i used to spend about 3 hours trying to set the timer on my video recorder,for the 3 days racing.This was a nightmare as the coverage used to switch from bbc1 to bbc2 on all 3 days,so trying to cram as many races on to a 3 hour tape was near inpossible.In those days we used to go best mate enclosure,so getting back to see the tele coverage was a must.So sitting down on the fri to relive all the excitement of the week,only to find about 3 half run races,childrens programes & the ffs budget. Happy days!!