IT was heartwarming to see Arthur Moore with an impressive bumper winner at Down Royal on Monday.

Those who follow National Hunt breeding will have immediately recognised that the four-year-old Flying Trix hails from a famous family cultivated by the late Bunny Cox, and indeed his father before him, John Cox.

By an amazing coincidence LMFM chose last Monday to broadcast a documentary on Bunny Cox. Perhaps Co Louth’s most successful jockey, Bunny Cox was champion amateur five times in the 1940s and ’50s. In 1949, he rode four winners on the same day at the Punchestown Festival.

He won a Conyngham Cup on Little Trix, trained by his father, and he rode four Cheltenham Festival winners – one for Vincent O’Brien and the other three for Arthur Moore’s father, Dan. As a breeder and trainer Bunny was extremely shrewd and won the Ladbroke Hurdle at Leopardstown in 1994 with Atone.

That horse is from the ‘Trix’ family, as was the Gordon Richards-trained 1990 Scottish Grand National winner Four Trix and Ferdy Murphy’s high -class novice chaser Aces Four.

Monday’s Down Royal winner is related to all of those horses, so don’t bet against him winning a nice staying chase one day.

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