AFTER registering 206 and 108 winners respectively in Ireland last season, Willie Mullins and Paul Townend got their first winner of the new campaign when Gold Dancer won the opening Hotel Minella Beginners Chase.
Disappointing since arriving from France, the Gigginstown House Stud-owned six-year-old was still sent off favourite, drifting from 7/4 to 3/1.


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