‘The fact that I’ve kept faith with Brian tells its own story’

A YEAR ago, as the Irish hordes headed to Cheltenham, Philip Fenton’s Dunguib was the banker of all bankers in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle.

Many felt the horse only had to turn up to win, but he did not and left the punters’ pockets scorched and the layers’ satchels bulging.

Twelve months on and Fenton is able to dissect Dunguib’s failure in forensic detail, but the results of his post mortem, oddly, do not leave him grieving the ‘what-might-have-beens.’ Rather they leave the former champion amateur jockey with a case of the ‘what-might-yet-happens.’