A bit like Brian Hughes, Bowen has not only proven himself top class but suffers from not being in the ‘right place’ to get on the right horses in the Championship races. I think the fact that people like Joseph O’Brien, Willie Mullins, Gordon Elliott ad Nicky Henderson, among a raft of other notable trainers, use Bowen speaks for itself.
Bowen is an excellent judge of pace and horses run and jump for him. Hard to say he’s the ‘best’ around but he is very definitely in that top bracket alongside Townend, Mullins.D., Cobden, Kennedy, Walsh.
Cormack