Warning: Willie Mullins is about to become even more frighteningly dominant
Willie Mullins won more prize-money in a day this week than 230 different trainers have done in a whole season in Ireland. And that is only trainers who have sent out a winner this season, never mind those who haven't.
Mullins earned €464,250 at Punchestown on Wednesday. Only Gordon Elliott, Henry de Bromhead, Joseph O'Brien, Gavin Cromwell, Noel Meade, John Ryan and Irish Grand National-winning trainer Dermot McLoughlin have earned more this season.
There were three Grade 1s on Wednesday, in which Mullins sent out the 1-2-4-6 in the 3m novice hurdle, the 1-2-4-5-6 in the Punchestown Champion Bumper and the 1-3-4 in the Punchestown Gold Cup. That, in anyone's language, even the Closuttonese that only Mullins speaks, is incredible stuff.
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