CABARET Queen, a truly inspired £13,000 purchase by Adam Potts and Jack Cantillon at the Goffs UK Spring Horses In Training Sale in May, capped a tremendous weekend for Willie Mullins with a handicap tour de force in the Ladbrokes Munster National.

A second winner of this race in three years for Mullins and a first for Paul Townend in the Limerick showpiece since he struck on Treacle in 2009, Cabaret Queen snuck into this race as a first reserve. Townend put up 2lbs overweight on the bottom-weight but this didn’t matter in the slightest to the seven-year-old daughter of King’s Theatre.