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Having trained six winners of the race in the last twelve years, the Champion Bumer has almost become Willie Mullins' to lose and this year will be no exception as he has an incredible thirteen entries in the race including the favourite Sicilian Secret.
The Bumper is not exactly a great race for favourites with only three winners in the last fifteen years, the last one being Missed That in 2005, who was trained by Mullins. In fact Irish trained horses have won an incredible thirteen of the sixteen runnings and punters are advised not to look outside of the Irish contingent in the race.
Recent training reports have highlighted that eight of the Mullins string worked out together last week but it was Sicilian Secret who looked the pick of the bunch, a fact not lost on Victor Chandler who clipped his odds for the race to 4/1.
Another interesting entry from the Mullins yard is Cadspeed who has won his only two starts by distances and he could be more than a lively chance at 16/1 from William Hill.
