Mick Fitzgerald: This is only the beginning of the journey for Emmet Mullins

The surname is familiar, of course, and given the impact he has made since swapping a jockey’s licence for a trainer’s one, it will not surprise anybody who doesn’t know that he is a nephew of Willie Mullins

A TRAINER GOING PLACES: Emmet Mullins has been in fine form in the build-up to Cheltenham and his impressive strike in England makes him worthy of huge respect. Picture: Inpho/Morgan Treacy

Everybody loves a trend for Cheltenham and trainers in form is what lots of punters latch on to when ruminating on where to put their money down.

At the time of writing (March 2021), Emmet Mullins had saddled four winners from his previous eight runners, which is a pretty impressive strike rate.