ONE always has to remember that if Willie Mullins had a good Cheltenham, he did so in the company of North of Ireland bloodstock agent Harold Kirk who sourced seven of the trainer’s 10 winners at the Festival this year.

One of those 10 was the Simon Munir and Isaac Souede-owned Jasmin De Vaux who won Friday’s Grade 1 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle in the hands of Paul Townend.