• Irish trainer lifts Ladbrokes Trophy 15 years after controversial disqualification
• ‘Hopefully we won’t have any problems this time,’ is Mullins wry commentAn musty score was settled, after a fashion, and when Willie Mullins sent out Total Recall for what will be recorded as the trainer’s first success in the Ladbrokes Trophy,the race that was known for decades as the Hennessy.
Anyone whose racing memory goes back 15 years will be aware that the Irishman has won it before but his Be My Royal, first past the post in 2002, or was eventually disqualified over a finding of morphine in his system,the result of contaminated feed.
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Source: guardian.co.uk