Willie Mullins's remarkable clean sweep of Grade One victories at last weekend's Dublin Racing Festival sparked a debate about how healthy one trainer's dominance is for the sport.
Mullins saddled four Grade One winner on Saturday, and four more on Sunday, while also taking the closing Grade 2 mares' bumper for good measure.
It prompted fresh discussion about whether something needs to be done to level things out, and ensure other trainers can compete at the top level.
However RTÉ Racing analyst Jane Mangan believes Mullins' feats should be celebrated, not punished. Five weeks out from the Cheltenham Festival, Mangan said the 67-year-old has changed the game in Ireland for the better.
"The Dublin Racing Festival has solidified its position as the marquee weekend of National Hunt racing in this country," Mangan told RTÉ's Morning Ireland.
"In terms of the action on the track, yes, eight of the Grade Ones went to Willie Mullins and that was a talking point throughout the weekend. Is this healthy for the sport? Is that good for racing?
"You don't tell Taylor Swift to stop releasing albums so other people can win the Grammys."
"Quite frankly I'm in awe of Willie Mullins. I think we should be rejoicing instead of criticising. There was a time of Vincent O'Brien, there was a time of Tom Draper. We look back at the 1-2-3-4-5 of Michael Dickinson in the [1983 Cheltenham] Gold Cup in awe and in time we will do that with Willie Mullins as well.
"For now he's dominant, at the top of his profession and he has been for over a decade. Some people are suggesting, should he be penalised? Should he be restricted? Is there some action that needs to be taken to stop the Willie Mullins dominance?
"Well you don't tell Taylor Swift to stop releasing albums so other people can win the Grammys. You don't tell Serena Williams to curtail her Slams so somebody else can win. And you certainly don't tell Alex Ferguson what to do with his dominant Manchester United team.
"No. You tell other people to try and reach their standard. He is elevating everybody else in this country.
"That's the reason we as a country will go to Cheltenham next month with a realistic chance of dominating a festival away from home. Willie Mullins has raised the bar, he is where we need to get, he has set the standard and all of the other trainers, jockeys, owners in this country are now looking at that standard.
"I think he's raised the game. Instead of criticising him, I'm in awe."
State Man's comfortable defence of his Chanelle Pharma Irish Champion Hurdle crown was the final Grade One win of the weekend for Mullins.
He now looks primed for a Champion Hurdle rematch with Constitution Hill, who proved nine lengths too strong at last season's Cheltenham Festival.
"We have our chance," said Mullins. "State Man is out and racing and is going to go there in tip-top order. It's all to play for.
"Everything is open. They [connections of Constitution Hill] are not going to be too worried and they'll be confident enough they have enough in the locker to beat us no matter what we do.
"All’s fair in love and war and you go and run. I don’t think there’ll be too many runners in it and a change of tactics might make all the difference."
