Gavin Cromwell achieves remarkable success with concerning implications for British jump racing.

It’s hard to put it all into words, if I’m being honest. The curtain came down on Cheltenham’s 2023-24 season last week and Gavin Cromwell finished it having trained more winners than anyone bar Mullins.

That is a fairly extraordinary accomplishment – particularly when you delve into the numbers behind his nine winners. They came from just 30 runners, meaning his strike-rate at the home of British jump racing was a quite remarkable 30 per cent.

They include a festival double, courtesy of Kim Muir winner Inothewayurthinkin and Limerick Lace, and a number of big handicaps throughout the autumn and winter.