LAR BYRNE is very aware that he is not owed anything by racing, having once been described by his late, great friend Dessie Hughes as the luckiest owner in the game.

Certainly, there have been many joyous occasions of celebration in a variety of winner’s enclosures, thanks largely to the dual Champion Hurdle victor and folk hero Hardy Eustace, but also due to the exploits of the ill-fated Schindlers Hunt, Acapella Bourgeois and Total Recall in the Slaneyville Syndicate colours.