Irish trainer keeps up momentum towards British trainers’ title with runner in Ffos Las on Monday
A contest that promised to bring the British jumps season to a crescendo at Sandown this Saturday has instead become a coronation march towardssuccess with MacDermott, has left Mullins all but certain to become the first Irish-based trainer to lift the title in 70 years.
Although there is £675,000 in prize money still up for grabs at Sandown, the champion-elect’s determination to close the deal is reflected in a series of midweek engagements for comparative peanuts before then. On Monday afternoon, Patrick Mullins pitches up at Ffos Las to ride his father’s Rath Gaul Boy in the opening race at the south Wales track. The seven-year-old broke his maiden over flights at Fairyhouse’s Easter festival. Skelton has seven starters on Monday while Nicholls has four.
The Ayr four-timer put the 67-year-old’s career tally of winners everywhere in the world to 4,364. That’s just 10 shy of Dermot Weld’s record. With an apparently vintage crop of three-year-olds to look forward to, the Irish man is also just 12/1 to win all five English classics.City Of Troy, acclaimed by O’Brien as the best two-year-old he has had, dominates betting for the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas while Ylang Ylang looks set to lead the Ballydoyle team into the 1,000 Guineas. Her stable companion Content may be switched to the French version at Longchamp.
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