THE Cheltenham Festival may be over for another year but the rancour generated by the fallout from last week’s National Hunt Chase is likely to be felt for some time to come.

The unfathomable suspension handed out to Declan Lavery for partnering Jerrysback into third became the focal point for much of the discussion that followed the four-mile race and justifiably so as the jockey should never have received such a sanction.