Gaelic Warrior Arkle victory is one of the great Willie Mullins Cheltenham feats
Paul Townend onboard Gaelic Warrior celebrates winning the Arkle at Cheltenham alongside groom Rachael Robbins. Picture: ©INPHO/Tom Maher
Willie Mullins has worked countless wonders at Cheltenham but getting Gaelic Warrior back on to win the My Pension Expert Arkle Challenge Trophy Novices' Chase five weeks after a shocking display at the Dublin Racing Festival has to be regarded as one of his greatest Festival feats yet.
Gaelic Warrior was 17 lengths behind stablemate Fact To File when he unseated Paul Townend in the Ladbrokes Novice Chase and watching him stumble over the last it was hard to visualise him winning any race, let alone a Cheltenham race, any time soon.
