WILLIE Mullins

Record-breaking trainer pursuing 13th success in day two festival finale.

Elliott looks to hold a major hand for Cheltenham’s Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase after 20 were left in the marathon contest on Tuesday. “It’s very frustrating news, but she has given the owners and breeders an amazing thrill by becoming the first Bahraini homebred Group One winner. He’s going to have to pull the strings on this one,” he said. She must have a huge engine and it will be interesting to see how she goes. I know we have Shishkin waiting for us there but, with Allaho out, Blue Lord looks like one of our best representatives. It looked a good race she won last time.

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I think he’s good enough to go for the Gold Cup on his form, but he looks like he has a nice weight at Aintree and now he’s qualified maybe that’s a more realistic aim at this stage of his career. Hopefully the much faster pace at Chetenham will be a huge help and she’ll be able to settle and use her talent from the last hurdle where it would be more effective than it has been in her last two runs. He’s two from two and I elected not to run him at the Dublin Racing Festival to keep him fresher for Cheltenham. Everything has to go absolutely right between now and then, but he has form at the track and I’d love to get him there. She’s in the mares’ chase and a few handicaps and we’ll see what the English handicapper thinks of her. Danny Mullins gave him a terrific ride to win the Dublin Chase at Leopardstown last time and he’s a horse that deserves his place at Cheltenham. He seems to stay and jump very well and would look to have a good chance in the National Hunt Chase or the Brown Advisory. He’s entered in all the novice chases and we’re debating between the Turners and the Brown Advisory and at the moment I’m coming down on the side of the Brown Advisory. He was third in the Brown Advisory last year and is likely to go for the National Hunt Chase this time. He’s only five and we can’t expect him to win it but a good run could see him end up in the first three. He’s still a maiden over fences and there’s a possibility he could go for the Turners. We ran him over the wrong trip earlier on at two-and-a-half miles but every time we brought him back to two miles he puts in what I call Grade-type performances.

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I think he’s good enough to go for the Gold Cup on his form, but he looks like he has a nice weight at Aintree and now he’s qualified maybe that’s a more realistic aim at this stage of his career. Hopefully the much faster pace at Chetenham will be a huge help and she’ll be able to settle and use her talent from the last hurdle where it would be more effective than it has been in her last two runs. He’s two from two and I elected not to run him at the Dublin Racing Festival to keep him fresher for Cheltenham. Everything has to go absolutely right between now and then, but he has form at the track and I’d love to get him there. She’s in the mares’ chase and a few handicaps and we’ll see what the English handicapper thinks of her. Danny Mullins gave him a terrific ride to win the Dublin Chase at Leopardstown last time and he’s a horse that deserves his place at Cheltenham. He seems to stay and jump very well and would look to have a good chance in the National Hunt Chase or the Brown Advisory. He’s entered in all the novice chases and we’re debating between the Turners and the Brown Advisory and at the moment I’m coming down on the side of the Brown Advisory. He was third in the Brown Advisory last year and is likely to go for the National Hunt Chase this time. He’s only five and we can’t expect him to win it but a good run could see him end up in the first three. He’s still a maiden over fences and there’s a possibility he could go for the Turners. We ran him over the wrong trip earlier on at two-and-a-half miles but every time we brought him back to two miles he puts in what I call Grade-type performances.

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“It was the year that the Wednesday was called off and the bumper was run as the 10th race on Thursday, in near darkness. Also of Joe Cullen, who Charlie Swan rode in 2000, who was owned and bred by my mother and who only went on the lorry because Adamant Approach was lame the day before. “There are lots of options, and I’m probably guaranteed to pick the wrong one. It was my first Grade One and very special.” She hadn’t run for more than three months and so I was afraid she mightn’t be fit enough that day. He said: “The betting says It’s For Me is our best chance.

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Flat Race at the DRF. Flat Race at the Dublin Racing Festival. The Champion Bumper is set to take place at Cheltenham on Wednesday, March 15.