Clonmel report: Bachasson continues Willie Mullins' domination

Trainer Willie Mullins after sending out Bachasson to win the Clonmel Oil Steeplechase at Clonmel Racecourse. Picture: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

As per market expectation, Willie Mullins’ runners dominated the finish to the Clonmel Oil Chase, but it was the outsider of the pair, Bachasson, who came out on top to give his trainer a sixth win in the last eight runnings of the race.

David Mullins, aboard the nine-year-old grey owned by the O’Connell family, Glanmire, set out to make all the running. There were a couple of jumping errors along the way but, in the main, he was perfectly good, and his rider only had to keep him up to his work to see off his better-fancied stablemate, Cilaos Emery.