Michael Winters stole the show at Cheltenham on Saturday afternoon after his horse won the Caspian Caviar Gold Cup.
The Cork trainer celebrated Chatham Street Lad's win by literally rolling around the parade ring at Prestbury Park.
He said before the race that he'd be rolling in the mud if the eight-year-old won and that's exactly what he did... on live TV.
Speaking afterwards, Winters said: “I said if he won, I would do like the pig and roll in the muck as that is what the pig does, so I had to back it up."
He added: “It was outstanding – it was a local jockey as well. He has come down to school on the horse lately and the horse has improved.
“The owners have always had horses in and they have a couple of pubs locally and things. In fairness he won well in Cork (last time out). This is spectacular.
“I’d be very humble about this. Racing is very special and the horses are treated so kind and people don’t realise it. It would be great to give something back as we are only passing through.
“I was confident we would run a blinder. Once he got over the last fence, I was hopeful after that. He is not Flat-bred he was bred for National Hunt, that’s why he was bought and he will keep developing.
“I don’t know where we might go next, but hopefully we might be back here (for the Festival) or at Aintree. He fiddled a couple of jumps and missed a few fences here and there, but I asked the jockey and he said he got in tight.”
Darragh O'Keefe, who rode the horse to victory, said after the race: "It was awesome. The one thing I thought might let him down was his jumping a bit, and at times it kind of did today.
"He travelled like a dream, he did make a few mistakes but when I wanted him he was awesome.
"When Micky Winters comes over to England he's got to be taken seriously because when he has the ammunition he's well able to train them. We thought he'd run well but we didn't think he'd do that."
Winters was joined at Cheltenham by connections of Chatham Street Lad's owner Vivian Healy, who were wearing Mayo GAA colours as they backed the Westerners to beat Dublin in next weekend's All-Ireland football final.
