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.

THE prolific Golden Silver is not a definite runner in Sunday’s paddypower.com Chase at Naas.

GOLDEN SILVER, in the colours of Violet O’Leary, defied top-weight to land the Tattersalls Ireland Dan Moore Memorial Handicap Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday.

WILLIE Mullins’ three Cheltenham winners head the champion trainer’s formidable team at Punchestown next week.

Ruby Walsh was once again the man to follow at Leopardstown as Ireland’s top jockey claimed two Grade Ones and a treble on the day.

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

Willie Mullins saddled the winner of the Weatherbys Champion Bumper for the fifth time when Missed That battled home by a neck to evoke memories of the great Florida Pearl at Cheltenham today.

Florida Pearl will return to the scene of one of his greatest triumphs next Sunday.

BY any standards, Florida Pearl’s victory in yesterday’s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup at Leopardstown was an extraordinary performance.

Nine times Irish champion jockey Charlie Swan reached yet another career milestone at Navan when Over The First became the 1,300th winner of his outstanding riding career.