Smaller is better for Murphy

PAT Murphy’s training career has not exactly been littered with top National Hunt prizes, but he won the Welsh Grand National with Supreme Glory in 2001 and he tells Declan Colley how he plans to repeat the feat today with his lightly-raced nine-year-old Maktu.

It has been a frustrating time this season for most trainers as the weather has conspired to wreak havoc on their best laid plans.

Pat Murphy, originally from Hospital in Co. Limerick and who now trains from a purpose-built base at East Garston in Lambourn, is a man for whom frustration has been a bedfellow throughout his training career but it is not something which gets the 52-year-old down.