CHARLIE Swan, Ruby Walsh, Tony McCoy, Paul Carberry, Davy Russell and Paul Townend are among the finest riders of the modern era to have completed a Galway Plate-Galway Hurdle double,. But - at the tender age of 21 last month - Dan King achieved something that none of those legendary figures managed to do.

Not since Joe Byrne in 1984 had any rider plundered both of Ballybrit’s biggest prizes in the same year. That was until King took the western highlights by storm with a 230/1 double, through King Alexander in the Plate and a tuned-to-the-minute Putapoundinthejar in the Hurdle.