Willie Mullins had a bittersweet Grade Two success on the Easter Monday undercard at Fairyhouse when Easy Game ultimately proved an inaptly named winner.
Easy Game was the third string of a Mullins quartet in the Devenish Chase behind the odds on favourite Janidil and the next best in the betting Blackbow.
The latter went to the lead soon after the start but sadly took a fatal fall at the fourth fence, in front of the stands on the first circuit.
It left Janidil in front but three fences later he and jockey Mark Walsh were lucky to escape a spectacular somersault unscathed.
The Mullins outsider Cilaos Emery subsequently led the decimated field to the straight where Easy Game eventually took over to complete back-to-back victories in the race.
“A little fortuitous” said the champion trainer with some understatement who reckoned Blackbow suffered a heart-attack before the fence at …
- April 19, 2022
