'He hasn't put a foot wrong and you'd have to say he's very exciting'

If you were told this time last year that a trainer would complete the holy trinity of the Champion Hurdle, Champion Chase and Gold Cup in the same week for the first time in the history of the sport, all of us would probably have guessed the same name.

If you were told the same trainer would go on to win the Grand National the following month, we would have been even more confident about our original answer. We would have all been wrong though.

It was not Willie Mullins who took last spring by storm, but Henry de Bromhead.