Normal service resumed for Willie Mullins who, after one winner but many reverses on day one, bounced back with a 194-1 treble, which included two Grade One successes, on the second day of the Punchestown festival.

There was some competitive fare on offer at yesterday’s Westmeath Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Castletown-Geoghegan and in-form handler David Christie’s Slippers Percy indicated that he could well by challenging for top honours this season by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

NINA CARBERRY claimed her ninth National Hunt award when she was named leading lady rider for the seventh year in succession at the Dunraven Arms Hotel in Adare on Sunday.

Henrietta Knight ended a barren spell of six months without a winner when Cross Kennon landed the bumper at Ludlow today.