Despite record-breaking achievements in 2024, Irish racing faces uncertainties heading into 2025. Aidan O'Brien secured his seventh British flat training title, while Willie Mullins made history by becoming the first Irish trainer to top the cross-channel jumps trainer list in 70 years. Mullins's remarkable season included surpassing 100 Cheltenham Festival wins and completing jump racing's unofficial 'Triple Crown'. However, beneath the celebratory atmosphere, concerns linger about the sport's popularity and future.
Unprecedented achievement in Irish racing doesn’t prevent insecurity bubbling beneath the surface of the sport going into 2025
Mullins’s epochal season saw him smash through the once scarcely imaginable mark of 100 Cheltenham Festival winners. When he added April’s Aintree Grand National to the previous month’s Gold Cup and Champion Hurdle, he completed jump racing’s unofficial ‘Triple Crown’. Awards help the showroom image Horse Racing Ireland in particular likes to portray. Uncomfortable peeps under the sport’s bonnet are another matter, and there have been too many of those for comfort in 2024, something perhaps behind Mullins’s defensiveness.
George H Bush’s ‘vision thing’ doesn’t seem to come into any reckoning about heading off problems at the pass.
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