EIGHT Grade 1 races were run over the two days of the Dublin Racing Festival, all eight winners were saddled, along with many of the placed horses, by Willie Mullins. Seven of these were bred in France. All indisputable facts.

The French story of success extended beyond the Grade 1 races, and when the final tallies were in, horses bred there had annexed 11 of the 15 races over the weekend, with Irish-breds notching up three wins, and there was a single British-bred winner.