It’s all about the winners for ambitious Elliott

Gordon Elliott famously burst on to the scene by training Grand National winner Silver Birch in 2007. Now he is Willie Mullins’ closest challenger.

He is unfailingly polite but it is evident that Gordon Elliott has somewhere he needs to go to or something he needs to do.

The answers are hurried, often beginning before the question is finished. There is no rudeness but you can sense the impatience.