Photo picture perfect as Willie Mullins gets Gold Cup monkey off his back

Forget about it. Erase it from your memory entirely. No need to ever mention it again. The monkey is off his back forever. After all the near-misses and the talk of the glaring omission from his CV, Willie Mullins has now won the Magners Cheltenham Gold Cup. Al Boum Photo and Paul Townend ensured so with an authoritative display in the feature on the final day of the 2019 Festival.

The leading trainer in the history of the Cheltenham Festival had plenty of reason to celebrate each of his 64 previous victories at the Festival, but number 65 is the one he wanted more than any.