Nick Rockett’s National success brings tears and smiles for father-son duo | Sean Ingle

Willie Mullins rarely shows much emotion but the dam cracked after his son Patrick steered little Nick Rockett to Aintree gloryWillie Mullins has long been a walking embodiment of Rudyard Kipling’s If: someone with the preternatural ability to treat whatever the twin impostors of triumph and disaster lob at him with a shrug, a smile and an impeccably judged word.But everyone has a breaking point. For the legendary Irish trainer it came when little Nick Rockett, an unfancied