Dominant Mullins has century of Cheltenham Festival successes in his sights

Hugely popular Honeysuckle has chance to bring career to a perfect finale in Mares Hurdle

Going into this week his overall tally of festival winners is 88. He will once again have to enter record-breaking territory to reach the once unimaginable century landmark. Only the foolish will bet the house against it happening.On the run up to this week it has been the British Horseracing Authority’s witless own goal on the whip issue that has consumed many minds.

The story of how the festival’s most successful current rider – with 25 winners in all – has emerged from short-lived retirement to fill in for the injured Jack Kennedy on Gordon Elliott’s horses has a lot of feel-good factor ingredients. For many it would also be the perfect conclusion to what shapes as perhaps the single most competitive contest of Day One.

Brandy Love appears to be the No.1 hope among a Mullins trio in the Mares but his best chances could be spread over the rest of Tuesday’s card.

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