'She loved her racing': Willie Mullins pays tribute to his late mother Maureen

'She loved her racing, loved meeting people, going to Tramore, to Thurles, going to Cheltenham. They were all the same to her'

Trainer Willie Mullins with his mother Maureen in 2017. File Picture Brian Lawless/PA Wire.

Champion horse trainer Willie Mullins has said that his mother's absence from the Cheltenham Festival was his "only disappointment" from from this past week.

His mother, Maureen Mullins, a frequent attendee of races involving her son, died following a short illness last month. She was 94.