Quite extraordinary – Mullins in wonderland after exceeding expectations

Champion trainer notches 22 winners in four days

Let's Dance and Ruby Walsh jump the final flight to give Willie Mullins his 14th and final winner of the Leopardstown Christmas festivalCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Lewis Carroll, the man who brought Alice In Wonderland to life, famously said: "I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more." Maybe he is right, but there was still something extraordinary about what Willie Mullins has done since Monday. It's no fairytale either. This is a true story.

Four days. Two festivals. Fifty-two runners. Twenty-two winners. Four Grade 1s. Fourteen winners at Leopardstown from just 37 runners. Eight at Limerick. In any man's language, even in Mullins' own lingo, that is quite extraordinary.

The man himself, always so nonchalant, admits as much.

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Published on 29 December 2016inReports

Last updated 16:34, 31 December 2016

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