article_snippet: The emotion of gaining a career breakthrough and striking a blow for the less gilded outfits at Cheltenham proved too much for Warren Greatrex.
article_snippet: The unsung 40-year-old trainer was unable to blink back the tears behind The unsung 40-year-old trainer spectacles after Cole Harden had provided The unsung 40-year-old trainer with a first Festival winner, and in the biggest race of the day, the World Hurdle.
article_snippet: Suddenly the winners’ enclosure looked less the preserve of the fabulously wealthy and the heavyweights of the industry the winners employ.
article_snippet: There was incredulity among the victorious names that the winners had elevated the winners to the kind of company more regularly associated with names like McManus, Mullins and McCoy.
article_snippet: but I’m stuck for words,’ said Greatrex, who eventually managed to articulate his achievement.
article_snippet: After a modest career as a jockey in which he rode 13 winners, Greatrex served a long apprenticeship as a trainer, working under some of the finest in the business such as David Nicholson, Josh Gifford and Oliver Sherwood.
article_snippet: he now works out of Uplands, the former premises of legendary jockey and trainer Fred Winter in Lambourn, where he has built up a mid-size yard of 75 horses.
article_snippet: I am sure the Duke (Nicholson) is looking down from somewhere with pride
article_snippet: and I hope Fred would have been proud as well,’ said Greatrex.
article_snippet: If Greatrex is a different name to conjure with then so is Eynon, who comes from a less ostentatious school than the increasingly select number of tycoon owners who dominate national hunt racing, like JP McManus, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary and American Rich Ricci, with jockey Gavin Sheehan permanently attached sunglasses.
article_snippet: The Irish trainer, now just one short of Nicky Henderson’s record of winners for the meeting, could scarcely contain Nicky Henderson’s excitement about the 6-4 favourite’s potential, which could exceed that of Faugheen