Patrick in Profit at Chester

GRAND National-winning rider Patrick Mullins ticked off another course on his mission to conquer Britain when victorious at Chester yesterday.

- BY MIRROR REPORTER

Although only 30 miles separate the Roodee and Aintree, the two courses could not be more different in their make up, and only two months after winning the world’s most famous steeplechase, the amateur pilot switched codes to navigate the tight turns of Chester.

Mullins had finished third in the HRS Cladding Amateur Jockeys’ Handicap aboard John and Sean Quinn's Red Mirage 12 months ago, but was handed the prime position of stall one aboard Ollie Sangster’s Profit Refused (3-1 favourite) this time around.

Away well over the seven-furlong trip, the 35-year-old had his mount in ahandy position throughout and after kicking clear in the straight, just had enough petrol in reserve to hold off the fast-finishing defending champion Outrun The Storm by a neck.