Punchestown Festival

Punchestown: State Man aiming to complete spotless season and record 10th Grade One success

Eager anticipation of highly-rated Cheltenham hero Ballyburn’s latest appearance in top-flight novice event

Teahupoo takes Jack Kennedy a step closer to landing first jockeys’ championship

Willie Mullins saddles record 35th Grade One success of the season as Il Etait Temps upsets 1-3 favourite Gaelic Warrior

Teahupoo has shot at becoming first horse in 25 years to pull off Cheltenham-Punchestown Stayers double

Gaelic Warrior an overwhelming favourite to give Willie Mullins a ninth win in a row in Grade One novice chase at Punchestown

Fastorslow underlines horses for courses theory with another Punchestown defeat of Galopin Des Champs

Gold Cup redemption for jockey JJ Slevin on victorious Factorslow at Punchestown after being unseated at Cheltenham from Martin Brassil-trained star

Galopin Des Champs can put seal on transformative campaign and pull off Gold Cup hat-trick at Punchestown

Cheltenham bumper hero Jasmin De Vaux bids to join elite company by doubling up at Punchestown Festival

JJ Slevin grabs more big-race glory as Banbridge pounces to deny Captain Guinness

Mystical Power and Spillane’s Tower supply Grade One double for JP McManus and Mark Walsh in front of 16,361 Day One festival crowd

Paul Townend has seven-winner gap to bridge on Jack Kennedy for champion jockey title

Kennedy leads rival by 122-115 with just five days left to end of the season

Fighting on all fronts leaves little sign Willie Mullins won’t continue to dominate Punchestown festival

Dinoblue heads record-breaking trainer’s team into end of season finale worth €3.5m prizemoney

Boodles signs three-year Punchestown sponsorship deal worth €900,000

Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Rachael Blackmore is to be drafted into the jewellery retailer’s box to woo potential clients

Maughreen shows plenty of family ability in dazzling debut

Maughreen, a mare out of half-sister to former Champion Hurdle winner Faughreen, romps to easy success in debut at Punchestown

Lossiemouth expected to put Grade One seal on record-breaking season for Willie Mullins

Christophe Soumillon teams up with Aga Khan again for Europe’s first Group One prize of 2023

Mullins and Townend continue Punchestown festival dominance with Grade One double

Connections face Champion Hurdle puzzle with State Man and Impaire Et Passe next season

King Henry returns to his throne, while Leo Cullen bites back in numbers game

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Willie Mullins smashes his own Irish prizemoney record with Punchestown four-timer

Champion trainer reaches over €6.6 million for the season with two days of festival to go

Punchestown preview: State Man out to make another statement of intent

Trainer Willie Mullins also runs the hugely talented Impaire Et Passe in hurdle action on Friday’s card

Martin Brassil’s Fastorslow springs 20-1 shock in Punchestown Gold Cup

Plucky move by trainer results in defeat of both Galopin Des Champs and Bravemansgame

Sire Du Berlais in pursuit of a Punchestown festival hat-trick in Stayers

Arkle hero El Fabiolo set to start short odds for other Grade One prize at Punchestown

Emmet Mullins interrupts his uncle’s festival progress as Feronily gives trainer a first Grade One win

Energumene heads 160-1 four-timer for Willie Mullins on day one of Punchestown festival

Matriarch of Mullins family still winning after more than 80 visits to Punchestown

Maureen Mullins (94) first came to Co Kildare horse racing festival when she was 12 and returns every year

Galopin Des Champs odds-on to live up to exalted billing in Punchestown feature

Mullins star bids to emulate Sizing John by pulling off Gold Cup ‘Triple Crown’

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