AFTER renewed media interest in the case in recent weeks, Willie Mullins opened up on the circumstances around Final Demand’s positive test for local anaesthetic mepivacaine that saw him disqualified from his second-place finish in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham last March.

The British Horseracing Authority could not determine the exact cause of the finding and opted for fines totalling £1,100 in terms of a penalty towards the champion trainer.