FOR the first time this winter, it feels as if the Willie Mullins yard is humming; in the racing week beginning Sunday, January 11th at Punchestown to the following Sunday at Thurles, the trainer had 14 winners across six Irish racing days.

Those numbers are one thing – and they are expected, as Brian Hayes said after winning on Joystick at Navan last Saturday - but more than that is the type of horse that was winning, and the style they won in, many of them what have become trademark Mullins.