Willie Mullins says he will try and keep Lossiemouth and State Man apart until Cheltenham in March
Paul Townend on board Lossiemouth coming home to win at the Fairyhouse Winter Festival on December 1st, 2024. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho
Hurricane Fly was Mullins’s first in 2010 when Paul Townend was also on board. “The Fly” went on to land that season’s Champion Hurdle and Lossiemouth is a general 7-4 chance to do the same.Sports Books of the Year: Conor Niland’s The Racket the best in a year dominated by autobiographiesTownend could wind up with an enviably difficult choice to make between her and the reigning champ State Man, who fluffed his lines last weekend when runner-up in the Morgiana.
“She does everything so well, and I gave her a squeeze at the last and she just lengthened. She was so quick from one side to the other and she gives you such a lovely feel,” Townend said. “It was very impressive. They went very steady, which suited us. She has that bit of speed. She has a nice flat pedigree and when they went steady, it was bar a fall or something like that. She did make a bad mistake at the fourth last but when it came down to a speed race I thought she was going to win that anyway,” Mullins said.“I imagine we’ll try to keep them apart. There is no point us knocking our heads against one another.
Townend’s pick from a handful of options was Belloccio but he could manage only fifth as Danny Mullins’s patience was rewarded from the final flight.
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