Champion National Hunt trainer Willie Mullins has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Royal Dublin Society in recognition of his outstanding contribution to horse racing.
The Goresbridge native, who trains from Closutton, Bagenalstown in County Carlow, is the most successful trainer in Cheltenham Festival history and a 19-time Irish National Hunt champion.
He also served time as a jockey during which he was crowned Irish Champion Amateur jockey six times, secured three victories at Cheltenham and won the Aintree Fox Hunters’ Chase in 1983.
Across his career, he’s ridden more than 500 winners as a jockey and trained more than 4,000 winners.
The RDS said the honour recognises his achievements in Irish and international racing over almost four decades.
