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The Mullins Machine

LUKE said:
Three great examples of horses bought from other stables that show the genius of Mullins.
True Self beaten in a Warwick bumper before being sold at public auction for £18K -ended up winning silly money at Riyadh on their biggest night of the year.
Thousand Stars couldn't win a race until Willie got a hold of him.He was a regular at the top table for years winning an incredible amount of prize money.
I Am Maximus -refugee from the Henderson Yard who won an Irish National,Drummore and Aintree National.
Has anyone ever improved a horse previously trained by WPM.
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LUKE said:
Historically that would have deprived us of the famous five.
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But that only happened once. Can’t help but feel it’s going to happen on a regular basis with the Mullins horses now. I wasn’t aware of True Selfs success. That really is a brilliant piece of race planning. Looking at Thousand Stars ( who I always assumed was trained by Ted Walsh) he was pretty good before switching to Mullins but had had a disappointing season just before he moved stable. Again, brilliant race planning. Henderson doesn’t seem all that interested in staying types so it probably made sense to switch him to a stable that excelled in those sort of races. Can’t help but feel it’s never bothered him that he’s never won a National.
 
moehat said:
But that only happened once. Can’t help but feel it’s going to happen on a regular basis with the Mullins horses now. I wasn’t aware of True Selfs success. That really is a brilliant piece of race planning. Looking at Thousand Stars ( who I always assumed was trained by Ted Walsh) he was pretty good before switching to Mullins but had had a disappointing season just before he moved stable. Again, brilliant race planning. Henderson doesn’t seem all that interested in staying types so it probably made sense to switch him to a stable that excelled in those sort of races. Can’t help but feel it’s never bothered him that he’s never won a National.
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Thousand Stars was 1from 12 before joining Mullins and had a peak rating of 112.Mullins won a County Hurdle and French Champion Hurdle with him-he absolutely transformed the horse.
 
Re Thousand Stars; jockey Tom Doyle recommended him to Jim Culloty when trainer Lar Byrne ( not Hardy/Lecky Lar) was selling him as a 5 year old.
For 10k he was an ideal syndicate horse that could run every week and always finish in the frame, according to Tom.
Jim declined; apparently he too cheap .... the rest is history.
As a 2 year in France he finished third to Binocular once, with Ashkazar sixth.
Any wonder these French horses became popular ?
 
Owners are flocking to Mullins and understandably so. For example: Pipe (David) has Caroline Tisdall now putting horses with him. It reminds me of years and years ago on a visit to Pipe's (Martin) yard for my dad's birthday. We were shown all the horses by Tom Malone before Martin came and took over. Tom Malone told us that Pipe was offered Kauto Star but his owners wouldn't (or couldn't?) buy him. He went to Nicholls and the rest is history. The same is now happening to Nicholls.
 
I see WPM has 7 horses entered for the valuable Sussex Champion Hurdle at Plumpton on Easter Sunday including Kargese and Absurde. Dan Skelton has 4
 


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