Another Mullins hits the target at Clonmel After Mags and Danny in the preceding contest, another Mullins got on the scoresheet in Clonmel’s mares’ handicap hurdle over two and a half miles. Held up at the back of the field by Sean Cleary-Farrell, Mount Shenshan (8s into 11/2 on the show) made steady headway to challenge two out and led before the last to beat Demanding Gerry by three and three-quarter lengths. “We persisted and now it has paid off,” said winning trainer Tom Mullins of his wife Helen’s eight-year-old whose only previous win was at this venue last year. “I stuck a tongue-tie on her and said it would maybe help her concentrate a bit more, maybe that worked — I’m not sure. She had been coming into good form compared to what she had been in. “We’ll keep the tongue-tie on anyway until it stops working. “She’s rated 85 over fences as well. She’s in, over fences, at Galway on Tuesday and we might run there. “We’ll keep tipping away until she trains off and then I’ll say goodbye to her.” Additional reporting by Gary Carson
