Cooper suffered an horrific leg injury when taking a crashing fall off Clarcam in the Fred Winter at the Cheltenham festival in March and it is a measure of the man that he has come back arguably better than ever.
He was simply brilliant on the Noel Meade-trained winner, very much changing his tactics, after the contest had not panned out as might have been expected.
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