The sign off the “main” road – as main as they get on Exmoor – is as unassuming as the trainer of this season’s Champion Hurdle; on the verge, “JS Racing” competes for daylight with wild garlic and primroses.
In a sport increasingly dominated by a few big players, the signpost to Jeremy Scott’s farm might equally direct you to a place called “Hope” after Golden Ace won the hurdling crown at Cheltenham last month for her 35-horse stable.
The bare outcome does not tell the whole story; that the two previous champions, Constitution Hill and State Man, both fell.