Patrick Mullins is delighted to see Energumene return to action in Sunday's Bar One Racing Hilly Way Chase - but isn't expecting fireworks.
The former two-time champion chaser faces five stablemates plus the penalised Banbridge and big outsider The Banger Doyle in the Grade Two contest as he races for the first time in 593 days.
Mullins said: “It’s fantastic to finally get him back. We’ve been crossing our fingers and holding our breath all autumn hoping nothing was going to go wrong. It’s not going to be easy. He’s ten going on eleven and a big heavy horse and those horses are often very hard to get back.
“But it’s the perfect place to start him out, it’s going to be soft ground and it’s a fantastic prize Bar One Racing have put up in Cork, 100,000 euros so it’s a Grade One in all bar name.
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