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Today, 10 years on from going out on his own, he rents 70 acres from former Southampton FC owner Rupert Lowe and is punching above his resources at sixth in a trainers’ championship dominated by heavyweights Paul Nicholls and Nicky Henderson. ‘We’re the Leicester City on that list,’ he says. These are successful times for O’Brien, who has had 85 winners this season and £630,000 in prize money, and he will have four or five running at the Cheltenham Festival.

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The cut for his stable in this numbers game is nine per cent of the winnings, plus £50 for each day a horse is in his care, but the subject of money in horseracing is where it all gets thorny.

It’s the argument, turbo-charged by the picture of a man sat on a lifeless horse, that this is solely a transactional sport; that animal welfare is not nearly so important as what those animals might earn.

It is a long debate with convincing points on both sides and one that will likely never be won. But the past fortnight has carried it further into wider society, putting Morgan’s strained face and blank eyes on to the two-dimensional figures cited by activists. Animal Aid have spent 14 years counting the racehorses that have died on courses in Britain and currently it stands at a heartbreaking 2,186. What statistics could never do so effectively before Morgan’s picture emerged was make the numbers real.

Now they not only look real but also have a name, and the subsequent momentum has given rise to a dubious conflation of horseracing’s controversial topics — whips, track fatalities, corticosteroids, all of it — into a single conclusion: that this is all just too cruel. But that is why we have to look. To understand that a picture of one man doesn’t represent an entire way of life.

‘I’m not going to put the boot into Gordon when he is down,’ O’Brien says. ‘When I first saw that picture I was sure it was fake because I couldn’t believe it.

‘All I can really talk about is us, and what you will see here — people loving their animals — will reflect 99.9 per cent of the industry. What you see here is the norm. You go see Molly or any of the boys and girls out in that stable, and you will see how people across this sport feel about the horses.’

Indeed, when Dusty’s Choice fell and died at Uttoxeter last July, Molly estimates she cried for a couple of days and no-one spoke in the tack room for a week.

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