WHAT a week it was, one filled with joy, celebration and a large degree of sadness.

On Tuesday, Willie Mullins saddled Masons Daughter, with his son Patrick aboard, to win at Ballinrobe, a racecourse he had not been to for some years. In the excitement of the post-race euphoria it went unnoticed and unreported that this was the trainer’s 50th victory of the season -– and by some way the fasted ever half-century recorded in Ireland.