Barry Geraghty doesn’t sit on the fence when it comes to controversial Cheltenham Festival changes [Video]

BARRY GERAGHTY is in favour of the contentious changes to the Cheltenham Festival announced this week.

2025 will see the biggest raft of new measures brought in in years ranging from the price of pints to the status of several marquee races.

With Saint Roi after winning the Randox Health County Handicap Hurdle at his final Cheltenham outing in 2020

And it’s that latter point that’s really stirred up a hornet’s nest among horse racing fans on social media.

The Turners Novices’ Chase – the key Grade 1 over 2m4f – is being downgraded to a handicap, forcing thousands of bets to be voided.

The Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase is to be similarly altered to a Limited Handicap.

Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary has already made it clear he’s very much in the ‘against’ camp while Ruby Walsh was part of the consultation group that formulated them.

It turns out Geraghty is in agreement with his fellow Irish jockey legend on this one.

Speaking in his …