Willie Mullins is looking forward to launching another strong assault on next week’s Punchestown Festival after entries for the first three days of the showpiece meeting were confirmed.

In recent seasons we’ve become accustomed to the leading Irish trainers successfully plundering big prizes on the other side of the Irish Sea but the tide was stemmed this weekend at Fairyhouse as the Kerry Lee-trained Top Gamble became the fourth British raider to land a graded race at the Easter Festival, when he justified favouritism in the Normans Grove Chase.