BEFORE there is too much talk of secret societies and conspiracy theories, it has to be stressed that the 20/1 bumper winner at Navan on Saturday, Illuminati, was named long before he came into the ownership of Sean Macklin and the care of Brian Hamilton.

“That’s far too clever a name for the likes of us!” joked the Downpatrick trainer. “Don’t forget, this is the yard that first produced Definitly Red whose rather simple name we managed to spell incorrectly! I was delighted for Sean that the horse won on Saturday. Sean has been with me since day one when he had a horse called Drumking in the yard and, through thick and thin, has always been very loyal.”