It was Nicky Henderson who suggested the Dublin Racing Festival (DRF) should be called the Willie Mullins Racing Festival, such is the champion trainer’s overwhelming dominance of this weekend’s €2 million Leopardstown extravaganza. There was a dig in there from the Englishman and it landed. The best wisecracks contain an element of truth. There will be inevitable winners and losers this weekend and there are several key gauges to the festival’s overall success. Perhaps the greatest such gauge will come if and when Henderson’s gag starts to lose its edge. This will be the ninth DRF since its inception in 2018 as National Hunt racing’s equivalent to the Irish Champions Festival. It also...
