IT is difficult to pick a highlight out of the weekend, a weekend that was replete with highlights, but Edwulf probably just shades it.

The Edwulf story is as unlikely as it is fascinating. It is an all-round feel-good story. This is the horse who fell three times in his first six races, once in a point-to-point, once over hurdles and once over fences. The horse whose record last season, his first with Joseph O’Brien’s name in the trainer’s column, read 3U21F1 before he went to Cheltenham and was sent off as near favourite for the National Hunt Chase. He travelled like a likely winner in that race too, he moved up threateningly on the outside of Tiger Roll as they raced around the home turn before disaster struck.