FEATURE WILLIE MULLINS
With 100 Cheltenham Festival winners now in sight, Willie Mullins chats to Nick Seddon about his success over the years at Prestbury Park… THE WILLIE MULLINS LEGACY
I t has been another year to savour for Willie Mullins, on both sides of the Irish Sea. Fresh from sealing the 4,000th winner of his career in January, Mullins once again stole the show at the Cheltenham Festival, with six winners that included both the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase. It almost
feels too much of a cliché to say that we have run out of superlatives when it comes to describing Mullins at the Cheltenham Festival, though in his case it’s quite possible that we have, seeing as we would require precisely 94 of them to be able to do him justice. Plenty have made their mark on the Cotswolds over the years, but very few will be able to match the
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