WHAT a difference a decade makes. This time 10 years ago, Andrew Lynch was riding Jadanli to victory in one of the slowest, most stamina-sapping editions of the Goffs Thyestes Chase this century. Now his world revolves around raw speed.

After a serious shoulder injury suffered in a fall from Castlegrace Paddy at the 2019 Dublin Racing Festival forced him to call time on his riding career in 2020, you might have expected a venture in National Hunt racing to come calling for the four-time Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey.