Power perfectly illustrates extreme vagaries of National Hunt racing

AS A fly-on-the-wall documentary topic, a year in the life of a national hunt jockey makes gripping viewing, largely because of the nature of a job that requires two ambulances to follow you around during your working day.

Had some genius decided on Robbie Power as a subject worth trailing at the beginning of a jumps season, the result would have been a seminal piece of work illustrating the extreme vagaries of this sport.

Today, Power rides Boylesports Irish Grand National favourite Our Duke and if he steers Jessica Harrington’s highly-promising seven-year-old in the same expert fashion that he has guided the wave he has been on the crest of for the past month, the Meath man is destined to fill in a rare blank on his CV.