“I am over the moon,” Greg Broderick told The Irish Field this morning. “I got the call at 9.30 this morning while I was at home here riding some four-year-olds.”

“But I really feel for Bertram, he is an absolute gentleman,” said the Tipperary rider. "I am very good friends with Bertram and I was certainly hoping in St Gallen last week that things would go his way."