'I'd rather we weren't going in as favourite - the limelight is on you'

It is not every day a 150-rated performer strolls into any yard, let alone that of a small-scale operator like Harriet Graham. This is a trainer who juggles having just eight horses in training alongside her duties as clerk of the course at Hamilton, all from the rolling hills and picturesque surroundings of her base near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.

But stroll in Aye Right did as a sprightly three-year-old from Distillery Stud in 2016, and since then the gallant son of exceptional Flat stayer Yeats has helped the close-knit yard run by Graham and her husband Rob – with the help of only one full-time member of staff – scale new heights.

Thanks to her charge's stellar campaign, Graham, brought up in Devon, is now in the unusual position of training the favourite in Sunday's Scottish Grand National at Ayr.