Willie Mullins hailed Douvan as "potentially the best horse we've had" after the brilliant six-year-old won his 13th race on the bounce in the Paddy Power Cashcard Chase at Leopardstown.

Australia has to do more than just win the Epsom Derby on June 7, he has to virtually bolt in if Aidan O’Brien’s blushes are to be saved.

Gemix kept the French Champion Hurdle on home soil when taking the Grande Course de Haies d’Auteuil at the Paris track yesterday.

Navan on Tuesday and Punchestown on Wednesday provided valuable lessons for any punters who thought they had this game cracked.

Boston Bob looked a future star in the making when running out a most impressive winner of the Grade One Navan Novice Hurdle for Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh this afternoon.

Ruby Walsh wasted no time in putting his stamp on the race to be crowned top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival by riding a first day treble.

Willie Mullins endured a day of mixed fortunes in the major events at Fairyhouse with two Grade One triumphs soured by the fall of great hope Mikael D'Haguenet today.

Morning Supreme maintained her unbeaten record over jumps with a game all-the-way win in the Dawn Omega Milk EBF Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick.

The formidable combination of Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh once again struck gold as Kempes gained his second success over fences in the Grade Two Nas Na Riogh Novice Chase at Thurles.

Willie Mullins made a winning start to Kerry National day at the Listowel Harvest Festival as Super Sonic Boom made all the running in the Irish Wire Products European Breeders Fund Maiden.

Willlie Mullins sends Galway Hurdle runner-up Deutschland and consistent mare Sesenta to face the starter in in the totesport Ebor at York tomorrow and the Co Carlow maestro is happy with the preparations undertaken by both.

IT has been a frustrating campaign for Drive On Regardles, but Willie Mullins' charge is fancied to finally deliver in the Great Oak Maiden Hurdle at Gowran Park this afternoon.

THE best horse on show on this St Patrick's Day in Ireland is Willie Mullins' Fiveforthree in the Richard Browne and Sons Ltd Hurdle at Wexford.

Cousin Vinny and Hurricane Fly are both among the entries for the williamhill.com Supreme Novices’ Hurdle following the latest entry stage.

Speculation is mounting that former Dublin stalwart Brian Mullins will be named as the county's new football manager.

A man who became severely ill after undergoing what he was informed would be a simple one day medical procedure has been awarded €285,000 in damages by the High Court.

Willie Mullins has decided to run Homer Wells in Saturday's John Smith's Grand National and will now be four-handed in the Aintree feature.

OWNER John Brennan, on the mark at Ballybrit with Cuan Na Grai in the Galway Hurdle and twice with Diego Garcia, completed a memorable week when the Willie Mullins-trained Man On The Nile ran away with the Mallow Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

CONTROVERSY raged at Fairyhouse last evening when the on-course bookmakers - over 20 of them - refused to bet on the first race.

West Ham’s Hayden Mullins and Luis Garcia will miss the FA Cup final after their appeals for wrongful dismissal were rejected by the Football Association.

IT is always a worry supporting a horse from a stable out of form, but we have to take our courage in our hands and row in with Willie Mullins' Avoca Mist in the Devil's Bit Mares Maiden Hurdle at Thurles this evening.

SWEET WAKE is a short-priced favourite to give trainer Noel Meade a second victory in the Anglo Irish Bank Supreme Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham today.

Willie Mullins unleashed yet another smart bumper prospect when Ballytrim won the thurlesraces.ie INH Flat Race at Thurles.

WAR OF ATTRITION, even if his trainer Mouse Morris refuses to commit him to the race, remained firmly on the Gold Cup trail with a solid half a length defeat of Rathgar Beau in the Clonmel Oil Chase at Clonmel yesterday.

TRAINER Willie Mullins has lost an English High Court action over “a serious injustice” he says occurred when Be My Royal was disqualified from first place in the 2002 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Newbury.

Niall Healy, the Galway seniors' three-goal hero against Kilkenny last weekend, has been included in the county's Under-21 line-up for tomorrow's All-Ireland U-21 hurling semi-final against Cork.

“Faugh-A-Ballagh”

ONLY last weekend, it seemed you couldn't give the job of Dublin manager away. But last night in Parnell Park Paul Caffrey was officially rubber-stamped as the man to take over the capital's senior footballers.

SHARDAM’S position at the head of the market for tomorrow’s Betfred Gold Cup at Sandown strengthened yesterday, with Ladbrokes cutting the Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained gelding into 7-2 from 4s for the £150,000 showpiece.

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FINANCIER Dermot Desmond has edged his shareholding in plastics and radiator group Barlo closer to the key 20% mark that would allow him to block the controversial management buyout (MBO) attempt led by chief executive Tony Mullins.

WILLIE MULLINS will appeal against yesterday’s disqualification of 2002 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup winner Be My Royal.

BARLO’S management faced a barrage of criticism at the plastics and radiators company’s annual meeting yesterday, with the possibility of an impending management buyout vexing shareholders.

LEADING trainer Willie Mullins is hoping for an extra Christmas present - albeit a day late – this year when he attempts to bring off an amazing treble in the Grade One races at Kempton Park on St Stephen’s Day.