FORGET the Cheltenham Festival - Sedgefield Racecourse staged its own racing extravaganza last week with 800 runners in the field.
It wasn't horses that completed three laps of the track on Friday but hundreds of students from Sedgefield Community College.
Nearly every pupil and teacher from the school and staff from Sedgefield Town Council covered the course's emergency track in the first Sedgefield fun run.
All the money raised will be donated to Sedgefield Town Mayor Jim Wayman's charity appeal - for The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust, Great North Air Ambulance, young people of the village and Cancer Research.
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