TRAINER Emmet Mullins recorded an emotional success in the race run in honour of his grandmother when Corbetts Cross landed the concluding contest on Champion…
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Already this year, the Prestbury Cup, the annual face-off between British and Irish trainers across the Cheltenham Festival, looks like a non-event. After the first day, the score stands 6-1 to Ireland. Though frankly, even if the Cup was restricted to Great Britain against the County Carlow trainer Willie Mullins, it would still be a formality. Mullins would simply walk it.