COOLMORE Stud’s classic star Mastercraftsman (by Danehill Dancer) has made an outstanding start to his stallion career, and like all good flat sires he has also demonstrated his ability to get talented performers under National Hunt rules too.

Wolf Of Windlesham, who represents his second crop, is rated only 60 on the flat, so is a long way removed from his sire’s best runners, but he looks set to rocket up the rankings over obstacles now that he is an unbeaten winner of the Grade 2 JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial.