Down-to-earth Hutchinson takes it a day at a time

Look back through the years at the Irish names which have graced National Hunt’s Pantheon of greats and you’ll find no shortage of contenders.

Going back to the middle of the last century, guys like Eddie Dempsey, Leo McMorrow and Jimmy Power laid the foundations for generations of Irish jockeys who would make their names in the UK.

Pat Taaffe, Bobby Beasley, Willie Robinson, Aubrey Brabazon, Martin Molony, followed on and in turn did the groundwork for the likes of Tommy Stack, Jonjo O'Neill, Eddie Harty and Tommy Carbery, who in turn inspired another batch like Adrian Maguire, Declan Murphy, Mark Dwyer and Norman Williamson and they too made it more and more likely that Irish jockeys would continue to be the class of the field in the weighroom.