When Willie Mullins won the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle with the mare Tourist Attraction in 1995 you would have needed more than a crystal ball to predict how dominant he would become in the world of National Hunt racing.

Willie Mullins appears to hold most of the aces in the Navan Novice Hurdle on Sunday, with Shaneshill, Outlander, Killultagh Vic and Killer Crow among the 12 entries.

On a day when his son Patrick equalled the amateur record on Union Dues in the bumper, Willie Mullins unleashed another potential star, Pont Alexandre to make an impressive Irish debut in the Grade 1 Navan Novice Hurdle in Navan yesterday.

The Gold Cup dream is still very much alive following Flemenstar’s spectacular defeat of Sir Des Champs in the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase in Punchestown yesterday.

Cue Card and Grands Crus are set for a mouthwatering early-season clash in the Steel Plate And Sections Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham tomorrow.

MAGICAL MEMOIR can prove the bet of the weekend in the www.gowranpark.ie Hurdle at the Kilkenny track tomorrow.

THE leading contenders have stood their ground for the sportinbet.com Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival next Wednesday.

LITTLE more than three weeks before the Cheltenham festival, champion trainer Willie Mullins was in tremendous form again at Naas yesterday, following his recent ‘nap hand’ at Punchestown with a four-timer.

GRA Geal Mo Chroi has a leading chance in the Mayo Advertiser Handicap at Ballinrobe tonight.

RITE Of Passage hardened as favourite for the Neptune Investments Novice Hurdle at Cheltenham after recording what his trainer Dermot Weld described as a “satisfactory” win in the Book Your Festival Tickets Hurdle at Punchestown yesterday.

Henry de Bromhead reports Sizing Europe to be fighting fit ahead of his bid to maintain an unbeaten record over fences in the inforthenight.ie Novices’ Chase at Leopardstown on December 26.

ON Monday morning a large number of the press corps made their way to Co. Carlow for a 10.30am rendezvous with Willie Mullins.

Richard Fahey is enjoying an incredible summer, and Coolminx can notch yet another winner for the Malton maestro in Vicky's Big Anniversary Day Novice Stakes at Beverley.

FOR many people it is the romance of racing that is the attraction; of being part of – or merely witnessing – fabled stories which are ultimately woven into the very fabric of the sport and become legend.

CATCH ME can complete a four-timer in the Grade 2 ladbrokes.com Boyne Hurdle at Navan this afternoon.

Cousin Vinny enhanced his growing reputation with a smooth success in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Irish Racing Writers Novice Hurdle at Naas.

CRANKY Corner might be part of Willie Mullins’ team for the Weatherbys Champion Bumper at Cheltenham following a smooth success in the Welcome To 2009 Pro-Am Flat Race at Fairyhouse yesterday.

Willie Mullins’ Cheltenham Bumper winner Cousin Vinny opened his account over hurdles at the second time of asking in the Durkan New Homes Maiden Hurdle on the first day of the Leopardstown Christmas Festival.

JERED advertised his Smurfit Champion Hurdle credentials when outpointing Cork All Star in the Grade 3 Anglo Irish Bank Hurdle at Down Royal yesterday.

TOM COOPER, who won the Cheltenham Bumper with Total Enjoyment four years ago, is on the Festival trail again.

DAVY RUSSELL consolidated his position in the jockeys’ championship when taking his tally for the campaign to 63 aboard Tiarella in the Murray O’Laoire Architects Mares Hurdle at Limerick yesterday.

IF Beef Or Salmon never wins another race, he will owe connections nothing.

NOEL MEADE'S Ballyagran, despite some indifferent jumping, made a fine debut over flights when taking the INH Stallion Owners' EBF Novice Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

The most valuable event of the Punchestown Festival, the Punchestown Heineken Gold Cup, takes place today.

JIM CULLOTY will team up with Total Enjoyment, a first ever runner at the Festival for Tralee trainer Tom Cooper in the Cheltenham Bumper next week.

WILLIE MULLINS’ Homer Wells gets the nap to turn over likely market leader, Overbury Affair, in the Bumper at Fairyhouse this afternoon.

JOHN MAGNIER and J P McManus found themselves on the opposite side of the fence at Clonmel yesterday.

NATIVE UPMANSHIP duly landed his third MacLochlainn Road Markings Kinloch Brae Chase at Thurles yesterday, but not before Conor O’Dwyer had given odds-on punters severe palpitations.

NEWLANDS GOLD staked his claim as a realistic Pierse Hurdle candidate when scoring a smooth success in the Fairyhouse Handicap Hurdle at Fairyhouse yesterday.

EDWARD O’GRADY’S Pizarro left a poor display in the Drinmore Chase at Fairyhouse solidly behind with a smashing performance to land the William Neville and Sons Novice Chase at Leopardstown yesterday.