No pressure for Lavelle as Paisley Park gets set to go back to where it began

Pressure? What pressure? A year ago Emma Lavelle had yet to win a Grade 1 but insists she is relishing her "extraordinary" success as she prepares to unleash stable star Paisley Park at the scene of his breakthrough success at Ascot on Saturday.

Twelve months ago Paisley Park gave Lavelle her first top-level victory in what is traditionally known as the Long Walk Hurdle, when the subsequent Stayers' Hurdle champion was only fifth favourite following narrow victory in a Haydock handicap a month earlier.

However, this time Paisley Park arrives as the one to beat instead of a rising star, a trajectory which has thrust Wiltshire-based trainer Lavelle, jockey Aidan Coleman and owner Andrew Gemmell into the big time with their fortunes intertwined ever since as prestige successes have snowballed.