“I was looking at him with the hood and wondering how much it would improve you Matt, if we put a hood on you?” Willie Mullins to Matt Chapman after Gaelic Warrior’s success

“There’s no ‘wow factor’ with State Man, and you don’t go wow when you look at him either, but he does what it says on the tin. You’ve got to turn up to win a Champion Hurdle. We turned up.” Willie Mullins on State Man’s Champion Hurdle win