Legends answer call for Pat Smullen

The conversation takes place prior to the dreadful news his friend and long-time weigh-room colleague Pat Smullen would need to undergo a further course of chemotherapy following a setback in his recovery from pancreatic cancer.

But even when we thought the recovery was without a hitch, and Smullen would be returning to the saddle alongside a slew of the all-time greats, there was no doubting the esteem in which Johnny Murtagh holds the Offaly native.