WP Mullins

Enterprise Park is related to several decent chasers - we'll see the best of him over fences next year, I reckon. He'll want a trip too, so this was probably a decent performance over the minimum.
 
I'm not convinced about the form of the stable-couple of short ones beaten at Dundalk and Thurles.Ballyhaunis runs at Thurles tomorrow-has some outstanding flat form in my opinion but have to give him a miss tomorrow.
 
some of ye might remember willie posting this on his Go Racing article a few weeks back

"Alternative acquisitions…
Earlier in the week I was at the sales over in France, and I came away with two nice three-year-olds, though I didn’t get the one horse that I had travelled over to bid on. Two different agents popped up with the horses that I did buy, and by pure coincidence the horses had been first and second in the same race. They are both nice individuals for different reasons, so I was pleased with that bit of work.

The horse that I missed out on made slightly more money than I’d budgeted for and I ended up as the underbidder for him. He was a beautiful horse and I’m still a bit annoyed that I didn’t go more to try and get him. He went for €70,000 in the end, but at the time I felt that was enough for a seven-year-old.

I’m told horses are cheap in France, but their racing is in good shape. Their prize money is going up and their horses are getting dearer because their game is so good.

Relatively speaking, they are probably still value for money, but it’s a very strong market, and we were soon left out in the cold with another one that eventually made €250,000. There’s no credit crunch over there when it comes to buying horses!"


he has just posted this now,
"remember the horse i was lamenting about from my French horse shopping trip.... called Roi du Val aka "the most beautiful horse i ever saw" - anyway he won a 50k race in Auteuil last Sunday - not good for my form!!"


looks like he missed out on a good one
 
He won a decent handicap last weekend, but he's very exposed. Might be a looker, but he's some way short of top-class for Auteuil.

Did he name the two horses he did come away with, neo05?
 
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I'm looking for them now Grassy - I did have them written down somewhere from researching the Arqana site.

To be fair for the 70,000 he'd have had to pay for Roi Du Val I'd seriously doubt that he'd get that money back. Now if anyone fancies going after Riz Amer - he'll be a pretty good tool when they go a proper gallop :)
 
Frogs Racing reported that it was My Sweet Lord who won a 12f Bumper at Nantes that Willie Mullins bought, presume his other buy is the runner-up in that race Starsky Des Mottes
 
Interesting that Quel Esprit goes to Cork for the Grade 3 stayers race with Rhyl Accord going for the Grade 1 at Navan.
 
Did anyone think Patrick Mullins was a tad bit over confident on Paul Kristian yest. I know he won well in the end but five lenghts down with a furlong to go on heavy ground and he took a pull!!
 
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Did anyone think Patrick Mullins was a tad bit over confident on Paul Kristian yest. I know he won well in the end but five lenghts down with a furlong to go on heavy ground and he took a pull!!
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I had him in a double with Thunderstorm over in England, and the fact that in commentary it was announced there was 200yards to go about a furlong out didnt help!! Looks pretty useful in fairness.
 
quote from mullins "Looking forward to running Golden Silver and Cousin Vinny over the weekend. Both are set to run on Sunday, with Cousin Vinny making his chasing debut. However, some of our runners haven’t been running great of late and it would seem some have a slight lung infection. It is disappointing because they had started the se...ason in such good form but we are just going to have to be patient"
 
Now in Jackie Mullins ownership.

As with all these ex-rules horses simply switching them to points/HC's isn't always the answer, in fact I'd say some Open P2P's and HC's are harder to win than the rules races they'd been running in.
 
Mullins passed Aidan O'Brien's record of 155 winners in an Irish NH season on Saturday, and is on 159 after yesterday. He could make 200 for the season, needs 41 with I think, 36 jumps meetings left.
 
I'm a big fan of the man, He's a Great trainer but a massive plus for him was being born into the game.......I'm more impressed with the likes of Len Lungo who trained 63 winners in a season in Scotland his old man made fish and chips and Lenny did it all from scratch.

I do hope he breaks the 200 hundred barrier.......might help if he gives up on sending Micky D over fences and sends him back hurdling before the horse does himself or Ruby some real damage.
 
Last I heard he was still in Dumfries in happy retirement but had been helping his son in law out when he had runners up North.....last time he came up in conversation there was no mention of him actually "working" in the yard which is like a zillion miles away.......but don't quote me on that as I haven't seen the guy in 14 years
 
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I'm looking for them now Grassy - I did have them written down somewhere from researching the Arqana site.

To be fair for the 70,000 he'd have had to pay for Roi Du Val I'd seriously doubt that he'd get that money back. Now if anyone fancies going after Riz Amer - he'll be a pretty good tool when they go a proper gallop :)
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:lol: Sorry Martin I've just read this and had to check them out - Roi Du Val won another 50k race last January 2012 and earned £1/2 million in his career. Riz Amer never won a race and only earned £22,000. The moral of the story being Mullins may be a better judge of a horse than you and I hold you in high regard ;)
 
http://www.irishracing.com/blog/blog/2013/02/25/another-record-in-sight/

Records are meant to be broken and Willie Mullins means to break them. The record of winners trained in an Irish season is smashed with almost three months to spare. His son Patrick has broken the calendar year tally for an amateur jockey. And it must be odds-on Mullins will soon become the most successful Irish trainer ever at the Cheltenham festival.


Just three more winners at Cheltenham will see Mullins overhaul Tom Dreaper’s tally of twenty six during a twenty five year period between 1946 and 1971. And with Hurricane Fly and Quevega on Day One alone, not to mention a red-hot hope like Pont Alexandre after that, there will be plenty banking on another benchmark falling to the master of Closutton.


Some will point out that comparing the modern master with legends of the past is not comparing like with like, since the complexion of the festival has changed so much. And there is something to that.


Only the most fervent festival fanatic can maintain Cheltenham hasn’t diluted itself over the years, with a move to four days, and the inclusion of races that don’t measure up to the standards of decades ago.
It almost goes against the trade descriptions act to have the Martin Pipe Conditional Hurdle counting for the same as the Gold Cup in such record-totting. But such dilution is a modern commercial reality, trading long-term credibility for short-term profit.
All that’s hardly a matter for Mullins though who struck first at the festival in 1995. And statistically, as in every other way, no one can argue with his status as a truly great trainer whose current domestic dominance is pretty much unmatched in the history of the game.


Away We Go was winner No.156 of the season for Mullins, passing out Aidan O’Brien’s 1994-95 tally with almost three months of the season to go. Stan James go just 4-6 about him hitting 200 before the campaign is out. On current form, that’s the bet of the season.


But perhaps the most impressive stat of all surrounding the achievement is the Mullins strike-rate. O’Brien’s was twenty per cent during that record season. Mullins’s is near thirty five per cent. That is remarkable.
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