Willie Mullins knew Vauban’s Melbourne Cup hopes were gone at the halfway point of Tuesday’s $8m epic. Mullins sent Vauban and Absurde back to Melbourne a year after both were unplaced in the Melbourne Cup, declaring the pair was in better shape for their second shot at the race.

Willie Mullins will focus on Clonmel’s more local charms on Thursday after another attempt to land the Melbourne Cup ended in failure in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Although Absurde ran an honourable race to be fifth behind the 90-1 winner Knight ...

Irish trainer Willie Mullins brings Vauban and Absurde back for shots at Melbourne Cup glory after both missed out last year under the Flemington sun.

Twelve months on from experiencing his latest dose of Lexus Melbourne Cup disappointment, the world's number-one jumps trainer is back in town with the same two horses who withered under a scorching sun 12 months ago.

Willie Mullins will not give up on his Lexus Melbourne Cup ambitions after watching Absurde finish best of his two runners in the Flemington feature on Tuesday. The Closutton maestro fielded the same two horses as last year in the latest renewal of the two-mile Group One,

Irish trainer Willie Mullins will seek an elusive first Melbourne Cup victory in Australia's most famous race on Tuesday. Mullins, the only man to train 100 winners at jump racing's Cheltenham Festival, has targeted the Flat contest (03:00 GMT) as a key event he wants to win.