#Emmet Mullins

Willie Mullins' raider was just under three lengths adrift of the winner at the line, but having been ridden with patience in the early salvos, was rattling home at a fair pace under the Irishman, keeping on and reducing the deficit with every stride. Mr Incredible is owned by Paul Byrne, who was the owner of last year's Grand National winner Noble…

Tom George: trainer spoke about the challenges British racing faces against France The best quotes from the racing world this week. . . In the cricket analogy I'd say I'm Ben Stokes, going out to try and hit a six rather than a four. If you get out, you get out. Devon trainer Chris Honour explains his ways of taking on the big yards with his small…

Grand National winner Noble Yeats is heading to Lingfield next weekend before taking aim at the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. Emmet Mullins is committed to attempting an audacious spring double in the Boodles Cheltenham Gold Cup and Randox Grand National with last year's Aintree hero Noble Yeats. The trainer drew comparisons between the…

BETFAIR CHASE winner Protektorat has been ruled out of the King George - but their is a new favourite for the big race. The bookies have reported an avalanche of cash for L'Homme Presse who has now leapfrogged Bravemansgame at the top of the betting. Venetia Williams' top-class seven-year-old is 7-4 (from 2-1) with Coral, while Paul Nicholls'…

Gordon Elliott smashed the bookies with a massive priced four timer - Party Central (9/4), Mighty Potter (20/1), Felix Desjy (11/1) and Absolute Notions (25/1) all going in on the opening day for the Cullentra trainer. Energumene was one of the few Cheltenham Festival winners to stand up the form when he fended off Chacun Pour Soi in the Champion…

The entries for the 2023 Cheltenham Gold Cup have this week been announced, with A Plus Tard in the mix to defend his crown for Henry De Bromhead and Rachael Blackmore. Last year, Blackmore and the then seven year old were favourites going into the race and won in stunning fashion with 2021 winner Minella Indo second and Protektorat third. The duo…

Constitution Hill takes another lazy roll on his comfy bedding, his tenth of the year so far and it's not yet nine in the morning on New Year's Day. Back on his feet he ambles over to the open half-door of his stable and gazes on the yard outside. Nicky Henderson's third lot are assembling in front of him, the younger geldings nattering excitedly…

Saturday sees the 174th running of the Grand National at Aintree. The Charlie Longsdon-trained Snow Leopardess heads the betting but here we run through the entire field, in order of allotted weight. 1) MINELLA TIMES (Henry de Bromhead) Rating (out of 10) 6, weight 11st 10lbs Created history for Rachael Blackmore last year but he has only run twice…

Maxxum: has been given a 17lb rise by the handicapper Gordon Elliott has ten chances in this Pertemps qualifier, but there are few as eyecatching as Maxxum. The short-priced Navan winner has had only two runs since joining Elliott and looked to have plenty in the tank when winning with ease over 2m6f. He can progress further and may be the one to…

Leopardstown is once more the mainstay for the ITV Racing team on Thursday, with another brace of Grade 1 races from the Foxrock track on the final afternoon of its Christmas Festival. The Neville Hotels Novices Chase (1.45pm) and the Matheson Hurdle (2.20pm) are the features from Leopardstown, with ITV showing four races from Ireland alongside two…

The Paddy Power Chase eluded Willie Mullins but nothing else on Tuesday's card at Leopardstown did as the champion trainer recorded a remarkable 102-1 six-timer. It was not a first for the trainer who has achieved almost everything the sport can ask - he did likewise on April 25, 2018, at Punchestown - but the only surprise was the fact he fell…

Jockey Adam Wedge will miss the Cheltenham Festival next week after sustaining a fracture to his T12 at Newbury on Friday. Wedge won last year's Stayers' Hurdle on Lisnagar Oscar, and is expected to be replaced by Tom O'Brien on Tuesday's Champion Hurdle hope Silver Streak. Trainer Evan Williams said: "Adam has a fracture to his T12 - he did it at…

Aside from everything that goes with the Cheltenham Festival in March, there is no better time of the year for racing disciples than Christmas with the finest of equine action everywhere you look. he cream of the Irish crop is certainly at Leopardstown over the next four days, although the opening show is a bit of a slow-burner at the Foxrock…

The Randox Grand National is underway and racegoers have returned to the world's greatest steeplechase for the first time in three years. Punters have not been at Aintree to cheer on the Grand National runners since 2019, after the race meet was cancelled in 2020 and held behind closed doors last year. They braved rain and chilly temperatures on…

The weights for the 2022 Randox Grand National at Aintree Racecourse have risen by 5lbs after the top three in the handicap - Galvin, Conflated and Melon - were taken out at the latest scratchings' stage. There are now 78 entries remaining, with Henry De Bromhead's Chris's Dream now topping the weights at 11st10lb, for the Aintree showpiece on…

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Well two for Paul Nicholls and with neither Nicky Henderson or the Ditcheat maestro having runners in the feature - he looks firm favourite to take a 13th Trainers' Championship. We had a winner for Ireland - one for Scotland - and one for Wales... Make sure you join Andy Jones and myself for all of the action tomorrow from 10am. The feature race…

Robert Waley-Cohen (left): leading owner is adamant Noble Yeats is a Gold Cup contender Robert Waley-Cohen is adamant Noble Yeats is not your average Grand National winner and believes he has a bonafide Gold Cup contender on his hands after Saturday's brilliant win. The Emmet Mullins-trained seven-year-old was cut to a general 10-1 for the Gold…

Grand National hero Noble Yeats made a spectacular return to Aintree in claiming the Boylesports Many Clouds Chase. Emmet Mullins' Irish raider was a 50-1 outsider in April when he provided amateur Sam Waley-Cohen with a fairytale farewell to the saddle and also became the first seven-year-old since Bogskar in 1940 to win the world's most famous…

FURIOUS punters slammed the'disgraceful' racing conditions at Wincanton - as thick fog meant no one could see a thing. Conditions meant that the helicopter of top amateur jockey Patrick Mullins was not able to land and he was diverted to Birmingham Airport. Mullins was set to make a rare appearance at the Somerset venue aboard Filey Bay in the…

The Grand National Festival ends with the world-famous steeplechase today. The three-day race meeting at Aintree began on Thursday, continued on Friday with Ladies Day and will culminate for another year today. Come 5.15 pm on Saturday there will be 70000 on the racecourse for the Grand National and 500 million people watching the racing across the…

here is an open look to the feature Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle crown (3.30) on day three at the Cheltenham Festival, with five British runners and five raiders, among them the reigning champion Flooring Porter. There is every chance of a repeat victory in this staying spectacular, as Paisley Park (2019) and Lisnagar Oscar (2020) are also back.…

THE Cheltenham Festival ante post markets have been in full swing since March. Shrewd punters have been busy plotting and predicting how this year's races will finish. Irish trainers dominated last year and with the likes of Willie Mullins and Henry de Bromhead having such strong yards, it's no surprise many of their superstars lead the way…

One of the biggest race meeting in the British sporting calendar is returning to Ayr Racecourse this weekend. Action at the Scottish Grand National in 2012 Last year local hero Mighty Th under, trained by Kinross-based Lucinda Russell, was first over the line in the Scottish Grand National - the first home-grown winner in a decade. It completed an…

With a month or so to go till the Cheltenham Festival, the ante-post markets are really beginning to take shape with racing fans across the country hoping to seek out value ahead of those famous four days in March. It's a very busy time for the trading team too, and we asked William Hill's Director of Racing, Mark Howarth how things are looking…

The six-year-old arrived at Hanlon's yard in Bagenalstown, County Carlow this week, having been purchased for American owners. The former Irish Cesarewitch winner has been bought out of Emmet Mullins' yard with the aim of landing the Aintree spectacular exactly 100 years after new connections' great-grandfather, American businessman and…

Several of the principals in last month's Paddy Power Gold Cup, won by Midnight Shadow (second right), are set to clash again Saturday's big race is the newly named Racing Post Gold Cup at Cheltenham. The long-established feature has been won by some of jump racing's greats including Flyingbolt and Pendil, as well as popular performers such as…

The Grand National isn't the most prestigious horse race in the world for nothing. It's an incredibly challenging course, featuring 30 jumps (16 fences, with 14 of those being jumped twice) on the four-mile and two and a half furlong race. But, while safety improvements have been made in recent years, the Grand National remains a challenging task…

Noble Yeats: a 50-1 winner of the Grand National in April Auteuil in mid-October is not renowned as being the sequel to a blockbuster Grand National success, but Emmet Mullins has never been one to stick to scripts so Noble Yeats warms up for a crack at Newbury's Coral Gold Cup next month in the Prix Heros XII (2.50). The Grade 3 chase, over 2m6f,…

L'Homme Presse takes what connections hope will be the first step towards a Gold Cup challenge in the Chanelle Pharma 1965 Chase at Ascot. The seven-year-old, trained by Venetia Williams, was an impressive winner of the Brown Advisory at Cheltenham in March and connections believe he will continue to progress and make up into a blue riband…

Stars are coming out to play on Saturday afternoon and the ITV Racing cameras will be at Ascot and Haydock to see them strutting their stuff. Gold Cup hero A Plus Tard is the main attraction in Haydock's Betfair Chase, while at Ascot fellow Cheltenham Festival scorers Constitution Hill and L'Homme Presse make their seasonal comebacks. Our racing…

St Donats flanked by jockey James Reveley and his father James, as well as trainer Hugo Merienne (blue suit) James Reveley may not have won the feature Prix la Haye Jousselin with the Willie Mullins-trained Franco De Port, but a haul of two Grade 1s out of three resulted in him showing his very best at Auteuil. Not that Mullins will have been too…

Bookmakers seem to run for cover whenever Emmet Mullins and Paul Byrne combine for a top handicap in Britain and the layers are taking no chances with Thousand Tears in the Greatwood. Byrne had a 35 per cent strike-rate over jumps in Britain in the last five seasons before the start of racing on Saturday and Thousand Tears shares a similar profile…

Shishkin and Energumene are on course for a mouth-watering rematch at Cheltenham on Wednesday with the pair among eight runners declared for the Betway Queen Mother Champion Chase. The top-class duo served up one of the races of the season in January's Clarence House Chase at Ascot when the Nicky Henderson -trained Shishkin narrowly got the better…

Day three of the November Meeting at Cheltenham on Sunday features the reappearance of Arkle Chase winner Edwardstone for a cracking Shloer Chase showdown with reigning champ Nube Negra. There's also the fiercely competitive Greatwood Hurdle and a Supreme Novices' Hurdle Trial that features an exciting Nicky Henderson import from France in familiar…

The first of six challengers from the powerful Aidan O'Brien stable with the master of Ballydoyle looking to secure a 14th victory in the Irish Derby. ARTHUR'S KINGDOM is hoping to follow in the footsteps of his sire, Camelot who won this Classic for the trainer in 2012. He has never finished outside the top two places and has a leading chance for…

Sunday's Unibet Greatwood Handicap Hurdle (2.55 Cheltenham) is the final highlight of the three-day November meeting, with the gambled-on Thousand Tears the favourite to give trainer Emmet Mullins a second win in the race in the last three runnings. Here we assess his claims, along with four other leading contenders. Form F340U- Strengths Twice a…

Finished second in the Galway Plate last year, just a length behind his stable companion Royal Rendezvous. He is 3lb higher now than he was then, but he is a classy chaser, he is four for four this season, and he warmed up for this nicely with an impressive victory at Tramore last time. We haven't seen him since he finished third behind Blue Lord…

IT seems like a Lifetime ago since I won the Grand National on Monty's Pass but it was one of the biggest thrills in my career. Jumping those famous Aintree fences - they were even bigger and tougher back then in 2003 - is a buzz I miss. So I will just be a little bit jealous when I see the jocks lining up for our first sight of them this season in…

Entries have been revealed today for the £160000 Paddy Power Gold, the highlight of The November Meeting at Cheltenham (Saturday 12th November). Staged over two and a half miles, the Premier Handicap Chase was inaugurated in 1960 and is the first big race of the Jump season. Sponsor Paddy Power has three 7-1 co-favourites - French Dynamite (Mouse…

Israr looks to cap a fine season and complete a Doncaster double when he heads the 22 that go to post for the BetGoodwin November Handicap. John and Thady Gosden's charge has been the most consistent of performers this term, winning Newbury's London Gold Cup over 10 furlongs before moving up to a mile and a half. He followed that up with a third in…

The seven-year-old carried amateur rider Sam Waley-Cohen, son of owner Robert, to a famous victory in the Aintree marathon last season in what was the jockey's last ever competitive ride. Trainer Emmet Mullins decided to send the gelding to Auteuil to begin his new campaign but under James Reveley he never hit his stride after making a mistake at…

The Galway Plate (18:40) on Wednesday is available as a free Race Pass, which means logged-in customers can view all our premium comments and ratings. Wednesday evening's Galway Plate (18:40), a handicap chase over an extended two and three quarter miles, is the big race of the whole week at Galway, with a fiercely competitive edition in prospect.…

There is a feast of action to look forward to on Racing TV over Easter and undoubtedly one of the highlights is the €500000 Boylesports Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Monday. The contest has a roll of honour which includes Rhyme'n' Reason (1985), Desert Orchid (1990), Bobbyjo (1998), Commanche Court (2000), and Numbersixvalverde (2005). This…

While the eyes of British fans will be fixed on Glorious Goodwood next week, Irish eyes look towards Galway, as their popular summer Festival gets underway on Monday. The feature race during this seven-day meeting is the Galway Plate, a handicap chase that has been won by legends like Tipperary Boy and Derrinstown during its 150-year history. We've…

There's nothing quite like the Galway Races and it would be fitting if Dermot Weld, the'King of Ballybrit', kicked things off in style today. oltor is back for more under Finian Maguire - who bids for a sensational hat-trick - in the Connacht Hotel Handicap having prevailed 12 months ago, but can he fend off a battalion from Willie Mullins? Let the…

As we wait for the National Hunt season get underway, now's the time to get up to speed on all the horses expected to go the distance this year. Whether you're a die-hard at the race course or just want to sound like you know what you're talking about while catching a few races in the pub, the highly-regarded Jumpers to Follow is the book you…

With little more than a week until the tapes rise at the 2022 Cheltenham Festival, clues are becoming few and far between, with most of the Cotswolds-bound contenders safely tucked up and awaiting their big day. However, there was a significant victory for one of Brian Ellison's runners at Kelso on Saturday that has triggered dreams of a Festival…