This season’s Ebor Festival will mark the 10th anniversary of Sole Power burning up the York turf to regain his Nunthorpe crown. But his trainer Eddie Lynam remembers it like it was yesterday.

The County Meath handler was already established as a high-class operator by the time his rapid but raw son of Kyllachy began his juvenile campaign in 2009, having enjoyed notable success at home and abroad with the likes of Red Feather, Domingues and the multiple group-race winner Duff.