NOBODY has ever doubted that David O’Meara is a good trainer. Starting from humble beginnings, both professionally and geographically, this former jump jockey from Fermoy, Co Cork, wasted no time in making his mark both forging and keeping a reputation as one of the most able handlers in Britain.

He has won nine Group 1 races with six different horses at a variety of locations on either side of the Atlantic. His bread and butter has been handicaps and, under both codes, he has won over 1,600 races, but one thing that his best horses have all had in common is that they had previously raced for other yards before joining the O’Meara string.