Alan Hill

The most notable thread running through his recent record is his partnership with Coolagh Park, a horse he has saddled four times without success. That in itself accounts for more than half of his total runners, which gives you a sense of just how modest the operation currently is in terms of numbers.

There is not much more to read into the stats at this stage — sometimes the honest story is simply that a trainer is in the early, hard yards of building something from scratch. Four years is not long in a sport where reputations take decades to establish, and every successful yard started with a record that looked a lot like this one.