It's the morning after the night before in Letcombe Bassett, near Wantage, following Coneygree’s fairytale win in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.

A banner is draped over the gates of Mark Bradstock’s Old Manor Stable with the words “Coneygree The Champ”.

Alongside it is a Union Jack – a reminder that this truly was a success for the grass roots of British racing.

Sleepy is how the village is often described, but that’s one thing the inhabitants of the yard don’t seem to have been doing much of.

Hundreds of friends and well-wishers armed with bottle upon bottle of champagne flocked there on Friday night to welcome home Coneygree.

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The party to celebrate the eight-year-old gelding’s memorable triumph went into the early hours – and it seems there are sore heads aplenty.

Bradstock doesn’t know what time they went to bed, although he estimates it may have been 4am.

Facing the Channel 4 cameras just four hours later was probably not what he had in mind when the celebrations were in full swing.

Describing the previous 24 hours’ events as “Fab”, he adds jokingly: “I don’t know where you get the hangovers from – I can’t quite understand it.”

By contrast, his wife, Sara, is far more lucid.

“He showed them didn’t he,” she says as she parades her stable star, who is wearing the Betfred Chel - tenham Gold Cup rug, having become the first novice since Captain Christy in 1974 to win chasing’s blue riband.

“He has no idea about silly stats about novices. He is the best.”

Coneygree’s jockey Nico de Boinville, who lives at Highworth, turns up in a relaxed mood.

“I’m still letting it all sink in,” he says.

“It is just unbelievable. It is a great feeling. I am still laughing and smiling about it.”

De Boinville and the trainer leave at 9.30am with Coneygree’s half-brother, Carruthers, due to run in the Betfred Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter.

However, hopes of a dream double are dashed when the veteran is withdrawn later in the day due to the unsuitably heavy ground.