Willie Mullins

Trainer has four runners in Thurles on Saturday, while Danny Mullins will stay in England to contend Midlands Grand National.

The latter scored at this level in the Flyingbolt at Navan recently where Flame Bearer was a well-beaten third. It hardly makes for an encouraging prospect but, before that mini alphabet, there was a victory in the Cork National on soft ground over 3½ miles. A fall in last month’s Grand National Trial at Punchestown was preceded by getting pulled up in the Thyestes, another fall in Leopardstown’s Paddy Power and a “U” for unseat over the National fences in Aintree.