What a difference 12 months can make.
This time last year Gordon Elliott was navigating the first few days of a six-month ban, imposed by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board after an image from 2019 of him sitting on a dead horse on the gallops had been circulated online, causing outrage that stretched way beyond the racing world.
Elliott had been cast out into the wilderness, with stars such as Envoi Allen removed from his charge in the wake of the controversy and the keys to his Cullentra yard handed over to caretaker handler Denise Foster while he served his punishment.
