Cheltenham Festival 2010: Pray that Robert Thorntons vow of silence catches on

By Jim White 605PM GMT eleven March 2010

Tight-lipped Robert Thornton, the heading manoeuvre at Cheltenham in 2007, is to evade the post-race peep talk Photo GETTY IMAGES

The stirring Cheltenham confront in between Denman and Kauto Star underlines the point that it has a little of the majority constrained tract lines in the total of sport. What it needs, it is at large agreed, is a little assertive open family to foster the narrative.

So there has been a little tut-tutting at the manoeuvre Robert Thornton"s uneven warding off to co-operate with Channel 4 during the Festival.

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The broadcaster likes to dispatch a contributor to follow the winning supplement for a word the impulse they cranky the finish line, in the demeanour of Clare Balding interrogation after Liam Treadwell"s dentistry at last year"s Grand National. But alone between his colleagues, Thornton, the majority successful aspirant at Cheltenham in 2007, has pronounced he won"t complete a word if a microphone is bearing in his direction.

Thornton, though, is not racing"s version of Sir Alex Ferguson, arising bans to any one he believes has passed over him. His overpower has some-more unsentimental motive.

"I don"t wish to contend anything foolish in the feverishness of the moment," he explained this week. "I usually think it can be a bit cringeworthy at times. I don"t know what they design you to contend solely "I feel wonderful"."

He has a point. And, after examination the evident post-match research of multiform of those endangered in Champions League matches, we can usually goal his is an proceed that catches on.

Winning regulation - fool around some-more Brits

Anyone who worries that British tennis has no hope, abyss or destiny need usually peek at the formula of the second turn in the AEGON Pro-Series mens eventuality in Tipton for acknowledgment that they are right to be concerned.

Of 10 British participants, usually 3 progressed to the third stage. And Burnham Arlidge, Daniel Smethurst and Daniel Evans usually modernized since they were drawn opposite associate Brits. All 4 of the immature Britons who played opposite a unfamiliar foe lost.

Still, such unity provides John Lloyd, or whoever takes over from him as Davis Cup captain, with food for thought. If the man in assign wants to stop the run of defeats he right away knows what he has to do. He has to safeguard that the subsequent time GB fool around in the foe it is opposite a GB team. Even we competence conduct to kick them.