IT is difficult to over-estimate the magnitude of Jessica Harrington’s achievement, producing a Gold Cup winner with her first ever runner in the race, her first ever entry in the race. Sizing John was her first ever runner in the Irish Gold Cup, and she won that with him too, so why not?

Jessica Harrington was already the winning-most female trainer at the Cheltenham Festival by the time she sat down to dinner on Wednesday night, but a Gold Cup and a Grand Annual now puts her clear. Add that to the fact that she is now one of just three female trainers to win the Gold Cup, and it is momentous.