EXTRAORDINARY, remarkable and amazing are just some of the terms that those most closely associated with Tiger Roll call to mind as they reflect on his storied career but in truth they don’t begin to describe the improbable peaks that he has scaled.

His now well documented successes have taken in three Cheltenham Festival triumphs and that nail biting Grand National success last April but listing off his achievements does scant justice to the breadth and scale of his varied career. Truly there has probably never been a horse like the Michael O’Leary-owned nine-year-old and even now the wonderment and surprise expressed by those who have been associated with this iron horse throughout the last few years is palpable.