Willie Mullins plots lucrative raid on Paris via IrishTimesSport
Fresh from victory in Punchestown, Klassical Dream is to be entered into the Grande Course Dde Haies D’Auteuil. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/InphoHaving secured record prize money of over €7 million in Ireland last season – and almost €2 million more in Britain -, Willie Mullins is now planning a potentially lucrative raid in Paris later this month.will head a sizeable Mullins squad going to Auteuil for French racing’s equivalent of the Dublin Racing Festival over May 20th-21st.
In contrast, France’s Gold Cup, the historic €900,000 Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris, has proved invulnerable to overseas raiders since Mandarin in 1962. Franco De Port is on course to take another crack at the gruelling test run over 3¾ miles on the Sunday. The concentration of French jump racing’s biggest prizes into a single weekend started a couple of years ago.
Mullins described as “just enough” the three-week gap from Punchestown in terms of Klassical Dream and Asterion Forlonge’s chances.
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