Surgeon’s success helps Mullins to Killarney double Jockey Danny Mullins completed a Killarney double today, providing local owner Tadhg O’Sullivan with a first course success with Gabriel Ranger (6/1) in the Dan Linehan's Handicap Chase. Earlier successful on all-the-way winner My Gaffer, Mullins again made the running on Gabriel Ranger and while headed approaching the final fence, rallied to beat Cloughroe by a neck. Winning owner O’Sullivan, a well-known retired surgeon in racing circles, quipped “Danny says he much prefers to meet me in the winner’s enclosure than on the operating table! “I’m from west Cork so this is the place I first came racing 50 years ago with my father, so I’ve always loved it here. I’ve had horses with Joe (Murphy, winning trainer) for 15 years so we go back a long time. “This horse is a homebred and Rachael (Blackmore, who retired today) won on his dam Nicaragua.” Trainer Murphy added “today was the plan but most times it doesn’t come off. This is the horse’s level and I’m trying to switch Tadhg’s attentions to the Flat!”
