The Cheltenham National Hunt Festival brought mixed fortunes - gales wrought havoc to the tented village at Prestbury Park and, as a result, Wednesday's racing was abandoned. The day's events were not lost, though, as the programme was incorporated into Thursday's and Friday's schedules. In fact, Thursday, Ladies' Day, saw a record ten races run - the day starting an hour earlier than scheduled.  The results brought cheer for many race-goers while there was plenty to celebrate for local trainers Nigel Twiston-Davies and Jonjo O'Neil too.  You can catch up with all the results on http://www.cheltenham.co.uk/ .

But according to BBC Midlands Today coverage on Thursday, the GWR was the top tip for getting to the races on time, in comfort and without the legendary traffic jams. The BBC picked 'City of Truro' as a pure thoroughbred guaranteed to deliver results and, indeed, the National Railway Museum's iconic 1903-built Great Western locomotive was in charge of race trains on Tuesday and Thursday. ITV also covered the train service organised by Racing Tours giving brilliant coverage of the days results - both on the Cheltenham track and on the GWR's railway track!

Our mini-gallery gives you a taste of another great Festival - despite the less great weather!