ARGUABLY the hottest trainer in either Britain or Ireland at the moment, Olly Murphy was born in the English Midlands. It is no exaggeration to say that he was made in Co Meath. The son of noted bloodstock agent Aiden Murphy and former trainer Anabel Murphy (nee King), Olly was always going to make a career out of racing in some form.

Yet, while paying full tribute to his parents’ ongoing role in moulding him, working alongside him and giving him the opportunity to get his training business off the ground, he has always admitted that his time spent working for Gordon Elliott on the other side of the Irish Sea was the period which underpinned his career.