Owner Paul Byrne’s Soldier In Milan (4/1 — 5/2f) landed a gamble in Punchestown’s concluding Overlander Bumper today, completing a high-profile treble on the day for English Grand National-winning trainer Emmet Mullins.

A debut point-to-point winner at Monksgrange on his sole previous start in March 2024, the six-year-old today scored under John Gleeson, when beating King Rasko Grey by 4.75 lengths.

Mullins, earlier successful with Its On The Line and Sea Music was emulating his uncle champion trainer Willie Mullins’ Friday-treble today and said “Soldier In Milan is an exciting horse, I always thought a lot of him but he’s a big unit, so I was terrified of the ground.

“He’s an exciting horse for next season with a cut in the ground and should have a big future ahead of him. He was a 16-length point-to-point winner and was very impressive on the day. It’s great to get that out of the way for this season but I think there could be big things ahead of him next year.

He added “we had a treble in Cork in the past - including winning a graded chase with Cape Gentleman, but this is a great place to be advertising yourself.”

Today's eight-race card saw non-Mullins trained winners from Ian McCarthy and Gordon Elliott.

Quotes from Gary Carson