WITH the attention that Jack Kennedy garnered on Sunday, Gordon Elliott’s achievement went a little under the radar. Elliott had a treble too, the same treble as the young rider, including the Troytown for J.P. McManus and the Proudstown Hurdle for Gigginstown. (See above.)

Not only that, but if you had asked the trainer beforehand in whose hooves his best chance of winning the Troytown Chase lay, which of his horses had the best chance of emulating 2014 hero Balbriggan, he probably would have said in Azorian’s. So it was a blow when the Westerner gelding had to be scratched, along with the other Gigginstown horse Bonisland.