Don Cossack reaches summit in style

National Hunt trainers’ handbook 1.01, how not to put pressure on yourself: When you have a promising young bumper horse do not tell the owner or the racing public that it could be a Gold Cup horse.

The rule could not be simpler.

Racing is littered with tales of woe of the horse that could have been anything, the one that had Champion Hurdle, Gold Cup and Grand National written all over it.