CHAMPION trainer Willie Mullins is on the cusp of yet another career milestone as a double at Gowran Park on Thursday leaves him just one shy of 4,000 world-wide winners.

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend celebrate winning The Goffs Thyestes Handicap Steeplechase (Grade A) with Carefully Selected at Gowran Park on Thursday
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Mullins won’t be short of opportunities this weekend and perhaps Bronn, the first of his five runners in the Soil.ie Working With Fairyhouse Beginners Steeplechase at Fairyhouse on Saturday, will be his latest headline maker.

Mullins also runs one of his stable stars, Energumene in the Grade 1 Clarence House Chase at Cheltenham, on the same afternoon.