Racing's equivalent of Benjamin Button gives Willie Mullins another special win

Willie Mullins has had many great days in racing but, as he debriefed the media in a packed winner’s enclosure, it was hard to escape the sense that few meant quite as much to Ireland’s champion trainer as Faugheen’s epic victory in the Flogas Novice Chase on day two of the Dublin Racing Festival.

Racing's equivalent of Benjamin Button gives Willie Mullins another special win

Willie Mullins has had many great days in racing but, as he debriefed the media in a packed winner’s enclosure, it was hard to escape the sense that few meant quite as much to Ireland’s champion trainer as Faugheen’s epic victory in the Flogas Novice Chase on day two of the Dublin Racing Festival.

Mullins had already seen Asterion Forlonge power to victory in the second today’s four Grade Ones, the Chanelle Pharma Novice Hurdle, when he sent Faugheen into the battle.

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