WILLIE Mullins will consider sending Djakadam to France later this year after he finished second for the fourth time in the Coral Punchestown Gold Cup on Wednesday.

Having chased home Don Cossack in 2015, Carlingford Lough in 2016 and been narrowly denied by Sizing John 12 months ago, the nine-year-old this time found only stablemate Bellshill too strong.