Rolf Johnson ponders the brilliance of jump racing’s legendary star trainer

Genius? If you have to ask you will never know. Would Isaac Newton have been a genius if the apple had missed his head? If not an apple then, what was it that landed in the vicinity of a prominent racing writer that provoked him to deny the status of genius to Willie Mullins?If, as in the scribe’s case, you can’t define what genius is, how do you state what it isn’t? What presumption: how would the apostate categorise two 16-year-old prodigies, one a darts champion, the ot...