Horse dressed in tweed suit ahead of Cheltenham Festival

Britain's Cheltenham Festival, is a horse racing event held each year


March 15, 2016
Britain's Cheltenham Festival, is a horse racing event held each year. PHOTO: MASHABLE

ENGLAND, UK: Veteran race horse Morestead upped the style stakes for this year's Cheltenham Festival by modelling the word's first Harris Tweed suit designed for a race horse.

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Complete with a flat cap and tie, Morestead wore the three-piece suit alongside champion jockey AP McCoy.

Bookmaker William Hill commissioned former Alexander McQueen apprentice Emma Sandham-King with making the suit, which took four weeks to make and used up more than 18 metres (59 ft) of tweed.

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Britain's Cheltenham Festival, a horse racing event held each year in the western English county of Gloucestershire, kicks off on March 15.

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Anonymous | 8 years ago | Reply @echoboom because it is "odd news" and odd things have no importance. Such news items are purely for the purpose of entertainment.
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