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The annual Cheltenham Preview Night for charity will take place on Monday (March 3) in the Salthill Hotel.

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.

Hector O hEochagáin will be the special guest at a Cheltenham charity preview night in the Salthill Hotel on Sunday March 1 at 8pm.

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.