Two for Mullins as Bridge breezes home

After Indevan s win in the preceding Grade 3 novice chase Willie Mullins doubled his score on Super Sunday at Tipperary as Valerian Bridge took the pro/am bumper under his son Patrick.

Gigginstown House Stud's Heron Island gelding went off at odds of 1/5 to supplement his Cork gains from the end of August as he again faced one of his rivals from that occasion, 9/2 'second in' Bay Sly

That rival made the running in this five runner affair but Mullins breezed by on the successful five-year-old, bred by his mother Jackie, over a furlong out. He came home in front very easily, by six and a half lengths.

Patrick Mullins said: "He improved a lot from the last day. He was working so easy at home prior to his debut that he never came off the bridle. That might have caught him out a bit the first day.

"When I asked him today he did it instantly. "He's a better ground horse and today was the plan. I'm not sure where he goes next," stated Patrick Mullins.

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