Champion trainer on the verge of a ‘half century’ of winners at Dublin Racing Festival
Galopin Des Champs has pride of place in massive Willie Mullins squad as he pursues Irish Gold Cup hat-trickCross-channel racegoers helping Dublin Racing Festival become ‘a thing’
It means the odds on a repeat of last year’s unprecedented clean sweep of all eight Grade One races have shrunk all week. That Mullins will at least reach the 50-winner mark at the DRF is so assumed as to be not worth betting on. What’s hard to quibble with, however, is the depth of talent on show, albeit so much of it is in the hands of one camp.
Pride of place, though, goes to Galopin Des Champs. Unbeaten in six starts over fences around Leopardstown, he has an Irish Gold Cup hat-trick in his sights on-route to potentially pulling off the same feat in Cheltenham’s “Blue Riband”. It will be a third clash with Fact To File this season with the score between them currently 1-1. A less flamboyant and energy-efficient Fact To File might close the gap from Christmas. But “Galopin” looks a proper top horse at the peak of his powers.
As the youngest runner in the line-up, Majborough gets 2lb from his Arkle opposition which might prove a significant factor in his favour. It was hard to pick holes in his chasing debut performance, and Mullins has made little secret of his regard for last season’s Triumph Hurdle champion.
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