Willie Mullins is a serial winner who knows how to lose

Willie Mullins has been second in the Cheltenham Gold Cup six times, writes Brendan O’Brien

This lark about how practice makes perfect? I don’t buy it.

If there’s one thing everyone in the history of sports knows how to do all too well then it’s losing. Unless you’re an All Black, a Dublin footballer or the kid who owns the ball and decides on the rules, then the odds are you know more about dejection and slumped shoulders than the pumped fist of victory. Even Michael Jordan lost more than he won. He said so himself.