Lamb still proving the recipe for success for owner-breeder Sally Hall

Lineage is immediately obvious to those acquainted with Sally Hall, who has crafted her own dynasty of horses in Yorkshire with a recurring theme.

Daughter of Tom and niece of Sam and Charlie, exemplars of the county in preparing Flat handicappers and jumpers respectively, she has been a trainer of some repute under both codes herself as well as ploughing an idiosyncratic furrow as an owner-breeder.

So when Miss Lamb emerged a proficient-looking debut winner of a bumper at Newcastle last month in her spotted colours, it might have sent a few onlookers down a memory lane which travels as far back as the mid-1970s.