Aidan O’Brien registered a landmark 4,000th winner as a trainer (jumps included) as Henry Longfellow streaked to a devastating triumph in the Group 1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes.

It was a fitting race for the Ballydoyle maestro to join Dermot Weld and Willie Mullins in achieving such a remarkable feat, and not just because the race memorialises the legendary figure who established the Rosegreen thoroughbred palace he operates from as a global centre of excellence.