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The Champion Bumper has historically been a fairly easy race for bettors to approach. Find an Irish runner aged five or six, preferably trained by Willie Mullins, who has proven stamina, has won his last race and hope that you've picked the right one. Willie, bless him, has tried to make this puzzle more difficult by trying to saddle the entire field for the last few seasons. If that move made life hard for punters, then last year's race must have bamboozled them entirely. Cue Card - wrong age, wrong nationality, wrong trainer, wrong jockey, wrong trip, hell's teeth, he might as well have been the wrong colour - it seems the only way of finding the winner of the bumper these days is to actually watch the horses run! The Irish challenge in this race used to be formidable, and while...