For The Staff scores for Mullins

The Willie Mullins trained For The Staff justified favouritism when he landed the Mallow Maiden Hurdle under Ruby Walsh for owner Eamon Duignan.

Winning trainer Mullins said afterwards: “We will probably go for a winners' of one next. He’s improving all of the time and I’d say we could probably go up again in distance. He absolutely loves jumping.”

“I think he will make a lovely chaser in time. We will see what he does in the winners' of one as to whether he’s just a handicapper or something more.”

“He was an ordinary bumper horse and he doesn’t really show us much at home but he just loves jumping and is a different horse over them.”