Patrick Mullins saying : "His options are limited. We didn't go to Aintree as he put in a huge performance at Cheltenham and we thought asking him to come back that quick would be tough. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:49:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : "He ran all right at Cheltenham. I think it turned into a bit of a sprint which obviously suited A Plus Tard and it didn't suit our fella — not that it would have made any difference," "I think he ran quite well and he ran really well (at Punchestown) last year when he was second to Clan Des Obeaux. I just wouldn't forget about him, he hasn't suddenly become a second-class horse"

irishexaminer Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:49:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “She was very green, but the further she went, the better she was,” “Her stamina is all about stamina. And we’ll see if she goes for a winners bumper early next month or goes hurdling”

irishexaminer Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:09:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I’m surprised I’m feeling how I am, but there we are," "That shows how much is means to me"

irishexaminer Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:50:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “I always think it will be a great problem to have on the morning of declarations,”

kilkennypeople Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:32:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “It’s a big local company supporting a big, local meeting. It’s always a day with a great atmosphere, particularly with this being a Saturday meeting and it’s always well supported by the community and racing people in general. It’s a great day to have a winner on, that’s for sure”

kilkennypeople Friday, February 18, 2022 6:19:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins stated ( about Paul Townend ) : “He jumped well today and I couldn’t fault what he did,” “Paul said when he got to the front, he did just what he did in Naas, he idled. Between the wind and the crowd, you could see him looking around”

eecho Saturday, February 5, 2022 9:19:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “To emulate those legends, he’s a very special horse,”

thejournal Wednesday, December 29, 2021 8:47:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "She's got good course form. She won here at the Dublin Racing Festival (in February) and the way she hurdled in Fairyhouse, it looked she could be a serious hurdler which would make her a serious contender. "

independent-ie Monday, December 27, 2021 1:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I'm gutted that we went out at the Taxis fence. Will take it on the chin, but very disappointed"

independent-ie Sunday, October 10, 2021 7:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about David Casey ) : “David Casey rides him in his work all the time and kept saying how well he was working,”

irishexaminer Friday, April 30, 2021 1:48:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I had a fantastic spin, and he did everything right,"

eecho Sunday, April 11, 2021 11:26:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about National Velvet ) : "When I was a kid I had a book about the history of the National fences, and I never thought I'd get a chance to win one,"

bbc Saturday, April 10, 2021 2:58:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented : “He’s from a great family – he’s half-brother to Dysart Diamond, bred and owned by the Mannings. He’s just a big, big baby. I was keen to get a lead, to him settled and get him relaxed. He picked up well for me in the straight. He’s a real soft-ground, three-mile chaser for the future”

irishexaminer Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:34:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

dundalkdemocrat Sunday, March 14, 2021 2:18:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

leinsterleader Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:01:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

kilkennypeople Friday, March 12, 2021 6:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

longfordleader Friday, March 12, 2021 6:01:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins explained : “I’ve tried not to think about it too much,”

independent-ie Friday, March 12, 2021 1:17:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “Last year at Christmas we left the horses a bit short and a few of them got beaten. This year we’ve done a bit more with them, he’s trained them a bit differently, and we’re reaping the dividends”

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:21:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I just love riding him. He's so straightforward. It's easy to ride him like that when you know the turn of foot he has. "

independent-ie Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:16:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "Might he get caught for a gear here? Maybe," "Those real good horses can probably win over most trips and it will be a fascinating race, without doubt. If he does get caught for toe, we won't be too disappointed. We can always go up in trip then"

independent-ie Sunday, December 27, 2020 6:17:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins declared : “He loves that heavy ground and has a high cruising-speed. He’s a fine horse but can be a bit keen, so the hood helped him today – being handy suited him”

irishexaminer Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:43:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "We needed to be white, we needed to be Christian, we needed to be observing Anglo-Saxon standards of reticence, which was even a phrase used by the Literary Censorship Board in the 1950s to describe its mission,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says ( about Jesus Christ ) : "They could go through your suitcase and they could take out anything that was going to be emphasising sex or violence, that would be discussing seditious politics, or that might bring into contempt God and Jesus Christ,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "That's how we wiped out, basically, the Australian-produced work that discussed sex or lampooned Christianity,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "So it would apply to children, to women to people of the lower and working classes, the uneducated,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "Given that the customs clerk was usually Catholic, and usually of the lower middle class, that led to a certain kind of view of what was going to be objectionable,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "In 1888 [NSW Supreme Court] Justice Windeyer actually ruled that information about contraceptives was not obscene, was not illegal. And yet customs clerks for a long time continued to snatch this stuff away under the reasoning that it was obscene because it interfered with natural functions of the body,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "The government was really quite afraid of the influence of this literature might have the idea that it might kind of provoke uprisings and promote problems,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "The system was coming under really sustained attack. And some of those moves to liberalise and set free some books were in response to that,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "Barton's view was that they had to do it, that their reputation would suffer if they allowed the police to tell them what books they printed and what books they did not,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "This is at a time when selling 10,000 copies of a book in a year is enough to make it a bestseller," "But of course the police swoop as well"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "So in one fell swoop, that whole uniform censorship was broken, completely torn apart, punched a hole in the system,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "I think in many ways, this moment where they publish Portnoy's Complaint and set up this showdown with a censorship system is so much to their credit,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins writes : "By the time Australia federated in 1901,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "This idea of protecting the decency of Australians was a really strong one,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins writes : "the censors looked for sex and four-letter words,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : "It's possible he'll go straight to Cheltenham. He wouldn't run before it,"

irishmirror Monday, January 20, 2020 7:03:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : “Willie and Jackie [his mother] would always have encouraged me to go to other yards,” “I like to see other places as well from a training point of view for the future, to see different ways of doing it. We’re so busy at home it’s hard to go away for a long period of time. And we’re going through such a golden patch now it would be a pity to go away. I like to go away to some of the flat yards in England like Gosden’s and Hammond’s. I’ve gone to Joseph’s [O’Brien] here, John Kiely and Gordon’s [Elliot]. It’s a great sport like that. There are very few sports I’d say that could you do that”

thejournal Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:29:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "He's another point-to-point horse and he seems to improve as the season goes on. He's done that for the last two years. "

belfasttelegraph Friday, November 25, 2016 8:41:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “She was a more-than-life-size figure, and a lot of fun,”

nytimes Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:17:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins saying : "His options are limited. We didn't go to Aintree as he put in a huge performance at Cheltenham and we thought asking him to come back that quick would be tough. "

irishexaminer Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:49:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : "He ran all right at Cheltenham. I think it turned into a bit of a sprint which obviously suited A Plus Tard and it didn't suit our fella — not that it would have made any difference," "I think he ran quite well and he ran really well (at Punchestown) last year when he was second to Clan Des Obeaux. I just wouldn't forget about him, he hasn't suddenly become a second-class horse"

irishexaminer Tuesday, April 26, 2022 9:49:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “She was very green, but the further she went, the better she was,” “Her stamina is all about stamina. And we’ll see if she goes for a winners bumper early next month or goes hurdling”

irishexaminer Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:09:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I’m surprised I’m feeling how I am, but there we are," "That shows how much is means to me"

irishexaminer Wednesday, March 16, 2022 10:50:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “I always think it will be a great problem to have on the morning of declarations,”

kilkennypeople Thursday, March 10, 2022 10:32:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “It’s a big local company supporting a big, local meeting. It’s always a day with a great atmosphere, particularly with this being a Saturday meeting and it’s always well supported by the community and racing people in general. It’s a great day to have a winner on, that’s for sure”

kilkennypeople Friday, February 18, 2022 6:19:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins stated ( about Paul Townend ) : “He jumped well today and I couldn’t fault what he did,” “Paul said when he got to the front, he did just what he did in Naas, he idled. Between the wind and the crowd, you could see him looking around”

eecho Saturday, February 5, 2022 9:19:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “To emulate those legends, he’s a very special horse,”

thejournal Wednesday, December 29, 2021 8:47:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "She's got good course form. She won here at the Dublin Racing Festival (in February) and the way she hurdled in Fairyhouse, it looked she could be a serious hurdler which would make her a serious contender. "

independent-ie Monday, December 27, 2021 1:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I'm gutted that we went out at the Taxis fence. Will take it on the chin, but very disappointed"

independent-ie Sunday, October 10, 2021 7:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about David Casey ) : “David Casey rides him in his work all the time and kept saying how well he was working,”

irishexaminer Friday, April 30, 2021 1:48:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I had a fantastic spin, and he did everything right,"

eecho Sunday, April 11, 2021 11:26:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about National Velvet ) : "When I was a kid I had a book about the history of the National fences, and I never thought I'd get a chance to win one,"

bbc Saturday, April 10, 2021 2:58:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented : “He’s from a great family – he’s half-brother to Dysart Diamond, bred and owned by the Mannings. He’s just a big, big baby. I was keen to get a lead, to him settled and get him relaxed. He picked up well for me in the straight. He’s a real soft-ground, three-mile chaser for the future”

irishexaminer Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:34:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

dundalkdemocrat Sunday, March 14, 2021 2:18:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

leinsterleader Saturday, March 13, 2021 4:01:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

kilkennypeople Friday, March 12, 2021 6:25:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins commented ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : “He was disappointing in Leopardstown at the Dublin Racing Festival. We’re dropping back in trip and we know he’ll handle the heavy ground because he won on it in Limerick. He shows us a lot at home so we’re hoping he can get back on track”

longfordleader Friday, March 12, 2021 6:01:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins explained : “I’ve tried not to think about it too much,”

independent-ie Friday, March 12, 2021 1:17:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins added : “Last year at Christmas we left the horses a bit short and a few of them got beaten. This year we’ve done a bit more with them, he’s trained them a bit differently, and we’re reaping the dividends”

irishexaminer Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:21:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "I just love riding him. He's so straightforward. It's easy to ride him like that when you know the turn of foot he has. "

independent-ie Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:16:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "Might he get caught for a gear here? Maybe," "Those real good horses can probably win over most trips and it will be a fascinating race, without doubt. If he does get caught for toe, we won't be too disappointed. We can always go up in trip then"

independent-ie Sunday, December 27, 2020 6:17:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins declared : “He loves that heavy ground and has a high cruising-speed. He’s a fine horse but can be a bit keen, so the hood helped him today – being handy suited him”

irishexaminer Wednesday, November 18, 2020 9:43:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "We needed to be white, we needed to be Christian, we needed to be observing Anglo-Saxon standards of reticence, which was even a phrase used by the Literary Censorship Board in the 1950s to describe its mission,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says ( about Jesus Christ ) : "They could go through your suitcase and they could take out anything that was going to be emphasising sex or violence, that would be discussing seditious politics, or that might bring into contempt God and Jesus Christ,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "That's how we wiped out, basically, the Australian-produced work that discussed sex or lampooned Christianity,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "So it would apply to children, to women to people of the lower and working classes, the uneducated,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "Given that the customs clerk was usually Catholic, and usually of the lower middle class, that led to a certain kind of view of what was going to be objectionable,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "In 1888 [NSW Supreme Court] Justice Windeyer actually ruled that information about contraceptives was not obscene, was not illegal. And yet customs clerks for a long time continued to snatch this stuff away under the reasoning that it was obscene because it interfered with natural functions of the body,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "The government was really quite afraid of the influence of this literature might have the idea that it might kind of provoke uprisings and promote problems,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "The system was coming under really sustained attack. And some of those moves to liberalise and set free some books were in response to that,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "Barton's view was that they had to do it, that their reputation would suffer if they allowed the police to tell them what books they printed and what books they did not,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "This is at a time when selling 10,000 copies of a book in a year is enough to make it a bestseller," "But of course the police swoop as well"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "So in one fell swoop, that whole uniform censorship was broken, completely torn apart, punched a hole in the system,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "I think in many ways, this moment where they publish Portnoy's Complaint and set up this showdown with a censorship system is so much to their credit,"

abc-au Wednesday, July 1, 2020 11:21:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins writes : "By the time Australia federated in 1901,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : "This idea of protecting the decency of Australians was a really strong one,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins writes : "the censors looked for sex and four-letter words,"

abc-au Monday, June 29, 2020 9:29:00 AM EAT

Patrick Mullins said ( about Cheltenham Festival ) : "It's possible he'll go straight to Cheltenham. He wouldn't run before it,"

irishmirror Monday, January 20, 2020 7:03:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins says : “Willie and Jackie [his mother] would always have encouraged me to go to other yards,” “I like to see other places as well from a training point of view for the future, to see different ways of doing it. We’re so busy at home it’s hard to go away for a long period of time. And we’re going through such a golden patch now it would be a pity to go away. I like to go away to some of the flat yards in England like Gosden’s and Hammond’s. I’ve gone to Joseph’s [O’Brien] here, John Kiely and Gordon’s [Elliot]. It’s a great sport like that. There are very few sports I’d say that could you do that”

thejournal Tuesday, March 12, 2019 4:29:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : "He's another point-to-point horse and he seems to improve as the season goes on. He's done that for the last two years. "

belfasttelegraph Friday, November 25, 2016 8:41:00 PM EAT

Patrick Mullins said : “She was a more-than-life-size figure, and a lot of fun,”

nytimes Thursday, September 22, 2016 4:17:00 AM EAT