Millionaire champing at the bit for 6am starts

Many 28-year-olds lucky enough to become millionaires overnight might be tempted to take the next week off work while blowing much of their newfound fortune on a series of all-night parties.

But just over a week on from his €1.5m win at Cheltenham, Cork-born stable lad Conor Murphy is back to his 6am starts — and delighted that life is pretty much as it was before his windfall.

“Thank God things are back to normal anyway,” he said while taking a break for lunch at trainer Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows stables in Lambourn, England. “I have been working all week. Being back to normality is good.”