WILLIE Mullins reckons it doesn’t get any better than what he achieved in seeing his son, Patrick, lift the Randox Grand National trophy on Nick Rockett last Saturday, and there’s every chance that’s very accurate when it comes to the emotional significance of any success he’ll have. The moment was so dearly cherished by Irish racing’s most successful trainer in history.

Whether it will get any better in National Hunt racing than someone sending out the first three home in the Randox feature - as well as five of the first seven across the line - is also debatable. To think that any trainer could conjure up such a result is off the charts. It’s hard to think of a better training achievement in National Hunt racing.