SWANSDOWN came up just short in the nine-and-a-half-furlong nursery at Wolverhampton on Thursday, which was disappointing for the people who had backed her from morning prices of 4/1 to an SP of 5/6. The defeat wouldn’t have registered on many radars were it not for the fact that Swansdown was Luca Cumani’s final runner as a trainer.

Luca Cumani was in his pomp during the formative racing years for many of us.