Our Ben will set the record straight

YOU know the way you think a horse won’t be beaten and then watch open-mouthed as he gets battered out the gate?

It’s not too bad when the love of your life, at that particular time, goes down to say the second favourite. But when he is trounced by a horse of which you had never previously heard then it takes a fair bit of swallowing.

Happened to me at Leopardstown at Christmas. Went through a beginners ’chase the way you might study for an important exam and concluded nothing would trouble Willie Mullins’ Our Ben.