Back In Front relives glory days for O’Grady

WHEN Back In Front stormed past the post clear of his field at the end of the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham yesterday his trainer, Edward O’Grady, must have given at least a passing thought to his Golden Cygnet 25 years earlier.

Golden Cygnet was without doubt the geatest novice hurdler I have ever seen and he won the the same race in ’78 with equal ease.

Indeed, his pilot, Niall Madden, was quoted afterwards as saying: "It was like driving a Rolls-Royce.”