WILLIE Mullins stands on the verge of winning both the British and Irish National Hunt trainers’ championships, and should this transpire, he will have many equines and humans to thank.

Victory for I Am Maximus in the Randox Grand National was a key factor in putting him in with a chance of landing the British crown, but he will also have been significantly helped by the efforts of the six-year-old Macdermott and Danny Mullins, who battled hard to win the Grade 3 Scottish Grand National, one of four winners the Closutton trainer had at Ayr.