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Willie Mullins has won more important races at the Cheltenham festival than the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle. However, I'm sure that very few winners he trains there will give the wider Mullins family greater satisfaction than seeing Sir Des Champs come from an almost impossible position, to secure victory in the final strides, in the second last race of last week's festival. For this observer, it was a fitting finale to what had been a wonderful week for Irish trained horses, and particularly those of Kilkenny man, Willie Mullins.

The Philip Fenton-trained Dunguib heads ten entries for the Grade 2 Red Mills Trial Hurdle at Gowran Park on Saturday.

Jimmy Mangan’s Whinstone Boy is among 29 acceptors for the historic Connolly’s Red Mills sponsored Thyestes Handicap Steeplechase, as he bids to repeat the heroics of Wylde Hyde and Priests Leap and land back to back runnings of the race (today) Friday, January 28 at Gowran.

This year’s renewal of the Galway Guinness Hurdle in my opinion lacks real strength in depth among the 47 entries but finding the winner is no easier. With top weight and twice course winner Luska Lad announced a definite runner by his trainer John Hanlon all runners will be able to run off their correct marks.

The greatest party anywhere in the eurozone is almost upon us and whether one deals in euros, sterling, dollars, or the Japanese yen all roads will lead to Ballybrit on Monday next as the seven-day marathon that is the Galway Race Week Festival gets under way shortly after five o clock. With more than fifty races on the menu punters will need to tread carefully through a minefield of tough maximum field handicaps and conditions contests under both Flat and National Hunt rules and with margins tight in all walks of life selective punting is advised.

Leading National Hunt trainer Willie Mullins enjoyed a Christmas to remember as he trained an unrivalled 17 winners over the Christmas period. The Bagenalstown based trainer is enjoying his golden spell in the training ranks.

Next Thursday afternoon will witness an expected capacity crowd flock to Gowran Park in their thousands. The most prestigious race in the Kilkenny track, the €100,000 Ellen Construction Thyestes Chase, will take place at 2.35pm.

Despite the present economic crisis, thousands of Irish people flocked to Cheltenham for the four-day festival that concludes today.

The strong association between Ireland's premier National Hunt racing family and England's premier National Hunt racing track was further enhanced last week by the exploits of the Willie Mullins team which undertook the annual pilgrimage to the Cotswolds.