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LEGENDARY Willie Mullins today won his first ever British Trainers Championship.
The 67-year-old made history as first Irish trainer to win the British Championship for 70 years since the late great Vincent O’Brien.
Willie Mullins won the accolade when El Fabiolo finished second in the Celebration Chase on the final day of the season at Sandown on Saturday.
Mullins led Skelton by £181,632 at the start of Sandown’s end-of-season finale as he closed out and surpassed the deficit to land the crown.
O’Brien passed away in 2009, aged 92.
Before his passing he was voted O’Brien was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history in a worldwide poll hosted by the Racing Post in 2003.
Vincent O’Brien rewrote the record books and landed back-to-back wins in 1952-53 and 1953-54 Brtitish Trainers Championship, and no other Irishman …
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