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Zara and Toytown to showcase Olympic flame at Cheltenham
THE QUEEN’S granddaughter Zara Phillips is due to carry the Olympic torch on horseback tomorrow when the London 2012 flame arrives at Cheltenham Racecourse.
Phillips and Toytown, who together won the Eventing World Championship in 2006, will ride Cheltenham’s finishing straight before lighting a cauldron. Her participation will mark the end of day five of the relay, which is due to end on 27 July at the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium in east London.
It comes after the flame was briefly extinguished during its journey through Devon yesterday, prompting organisers to scramble to light a replacement from the so-called mother flame, which is kept in a wind-proof lantern.