THE link-up between Gavin Cromwell and Jonathan Moore looks like a really good fit. Both are talented exponents of their respective crafts, young and highly progressive.

Cromwell just continues to go from strength-to-strength. The loss of Espoir D’Allen was desperate for him and his team, as it was for owner JP McManus. The loss of a young horse like that, in his prime, probably still progressing, only the second five-year-old to win a Champion Hurdle since See You Then. The loss of unrealised potential. All that he had yet to achieve. There was no knowing how high Espoir D’Allen could have climbed.