'He could be the next Sea Pigeon' - Moores aiming high with unlucky Goshen

One week on from the Triumph Hurdle and all that remains of Jamie Moore's ferocious battering at the hands of the festival gods is a nicely purple black eye. Inwardly, no doubt, there are still wounds that haven't healed, but Cisswood Stables is no place to sit around and feel sorry for yourself.

Goshen's last-flight unseat, with the race at his mercy and the world at his feet was, after all's said and done, just a horserace, and if recent events have taught us anything it's that there are more pressing matters to occupy the mass consciousness. There were people on social media who wished Jamie a slow and painful death from coronavirus – at least showing a decent grasp of current affairs – or a quicker one from a broken neck, but he survived and his rehabilitation is going well.

"It's hit me harder than anyone, but I know there's people in the world worse off than me at the moment and that's how I have to look at it," says the crestfallen rider, making a pretty good fist of philosophical acceptance. He still carries the guilt around with him, the gnawing if misguided belief that he let everybody down when their hard work and faith were about to come to glorious fruition, but slowly that's fading, to be replaced by moments of genuine excitement about the future of what just could be one of the horses of a generation.