A LOTTERY winner turned racehorse trainer has been denied the chance to go for the second big jackpot of his life at the Cheltenham Festival.

Edwin Tuer, who scooped £4m on the National Lottery five years ago, was to have two runners at the premier horse-racing meeting this week.

But minor injuries to both horses - trained at his 950-acre dairy farm at Great Smeaton, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire - forced him to withdraw from the event.

The injuries to Bula Rose and Trade Dispute meant Mr Tuer, 58, had to put his dream of training a Cheltenham Festival winner on hold for at least another year.

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