A first-and-last-race double for champion trainer Willie Mullins, thanks to Sin Palo and Tasitiocht, and both a winner and a two-day suspension for champion-jockey Davy Russell were the chief talking points in Kilbeggan yesterday.

A FIVE-TIME winner on the flat, Leah Claire belatedly opened her account over hurdles when turning over odds-on favourite Ceol Rua in the Saltees Island Mares Novice Hurdle in Wexford yesterday.