Willie Mullins

Focus on Willie Mullins runners as champion trainer ends 2024 with some rare uncertainty around stable form

Bumper champion Jasmin De Vaux among eight Mullins entries for first Grade One of 2025 at Naas on Sunday

Mouthwatering prospect as Galopin Des Champs and Fact to File renew rivalry

A clash between the top two in the Cheltenham Golf Cup betting is one to relish

Denis Walsh: Irish sport’s underdog mentality has been replaced with an unabashed hunger to be the best

In the Golden Age of Irish sport, winning has become intentional

Leopardstown festival: Gordon Elliott and Gavin Cromwell pursue major staying handicap chase double

Willie Mullins set to saddle 10 runners in €200,000 Paddy Power Chase on Day Two of Leopardstown

Lossiemouth against Constitution Hill set to be a Kempton Christmas Hurdle cracker

Paul Townend and Rachael Blackmore among top Irish riders in King George VI Chase action

Gordon Elliott saddles three of the four runners in Leopardstown’s €100k St Stephen’s Day feature

Willie Mullins will again be expected to dominate the week overall but the champion trainer has no representative in the new Grade One Novice Chase

Absence of ‘vision thing’ results in problems not being headed off at the pass

Unprecedented achievement in Irish racing doesn’t prevent insecurity bubbling beneath the surface of the sport going into 2025

JP McManus’s new purchase The Wallpark on target for tilt at Grade One glory in Ascot’s Long Walk

Rachael Blackmore forced to settle for minor money at Naas on her comeback from a neck injury

Paul O’Donovan named RTÉ Sportsperson of the Year 2024

Paralympic medallist Róisín Ní Ríain chosen as Young Sportsperson of the Year

Ile Atlantique team weighing up January options

Willie Mullins-trained six-year old made a perfect start to his chasing career when landing the QuinnBet Beginners Chase at Navan recently

Majborough makes magnificent chasing debut at Fairyhouse

Willie Mullins’s Triumph Hurdle hero proved far too good for stablemates Tullyhill and Asian Master

James’s Gate sheds maiden tag over hurdles at Punchestown

Willie Mullins dominates rest of Tuesday’s card with four winners

Energumene returns to action in style with third Hilly Way success in Cork

Willie Mullins star cut to 5/1 to pull off another hat-trick in Champion Chase at Cheltenham

Festive plans for star McManus chasers could be clearer next week

Fact To File, Spillane’s Tower and Corbetts Cross all excelled as novices last term

Galopin Des Champs named HRI’s 2024 Horse of the Year

Aga Khan acclaimed as ‘one of our own’ by HRI boss after receiving Contribution to Industry prize

Lossiemouth stamps her authority on Champion Hurdle betting with defeat of Teahupoo

Willie Mullins says he will try and keep Lossiemouth and State Man apart until Cheltenham in March

McManus team not ruling out Christmas Leopardstown option for Fact To File

Constitution Hill back in the frame to make return to action in Christmas Hurdle at Kempton

Fact To File clear Gold Cup favourite after exciting Durkan finish signals changing of the guard

Willie Mullins star beats Spillane’s Tower by half a length with reigning dual-Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs in third

Willie Mullins set to take wraps off some of his biggest stars at Punchestown

Top three in Cheltenham Gold Cup betting set to clash in vintage John Durkan Chase as winter weather sets in

Gordon Elliott aiming to maintain Troytown dominance with strong team topped by American Mike

Bob Olinger back to defend Lismullen Hurdle on day one of Navan Racing Festival

Willie Mullins already planning for next year after disappointing Melbourne Cup

Both Vauban and Absurde finish out of the frame as champion trainer turns attention back to domestic action

Irish jockey Robbie Dolan rides Knight’s Choice to Melbourne Cup victory

Disappointment for Willie Mullins in the Melbourne Cup as both his entrants finish outside top four

Willie Mullins weighing up Galopin Des Champs’ return to action

Jack Kennedy has three rides at Fairyhouse as champion jockey makes comeback from suspension

The Lion In Winter leads Aidan O’Brien’s team into superpower Dewhurst clash with Godolphin

Willie Mullins aiming for record-equaling fourth Cesarewitch success with ex-German Sea Of Sands

Irish Cesarewitch sponsorship review to take place following Sunday’s renewal of €600k feature

Jessica Harrington’s Trevaunance fourth to Rebel’s Romance in German Group One

IHRB urged to tighten up rules after Killarney race where winner didn’t jump one of the fences

Veteran trainer Michael Hourigan rules out appeal against stewards’ decision to allow Arctic Fly keep controversial race in Killarney

Willie Mullins-trained steeplechase winner keeps Killarney race despite appearing not to jump a fence

Killarney stewards take no action after Arctic Fly crashes through gap between second fence and wing en route to victory

Top trainers’ legal threat to Horse Racing Ireland hits sweet spot of reputational self-harm

HRI proposal to exclude top four jumps trainers from 60 races next year is little more than cosmetic exercise

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August 4th-9th: From the fourth series of psychological crime drama Vienna Blood to Dubliner Eoin Morgan’s wild ride in English cricket

Willie Mullins aims eight at Galway Hurdle as he bids for sixth win in nine years

Galway Day 4 preview: Jockey Wesley Joyce teams up again with Red Heel two years after near disastrous spill in the Corrib Stakes

Pinkerton rolls back the years with exciting Galway Plate success for Noel Meade

Jockey Donagh Meyler makes most of opportunity on 20-1 outsider Pinkerton to win Galway steeplechase highlight for a second time

Percival Legallois could spoil Gordon Elliott’s hopes of a landmark fifth Galway Plate success

JP McManus-owned In Excelsis Deo bids to become first cross-channel trained Plate winner since 2008

Dunsdon springs 50/1 shock on Willie Mullins-trained Sirius to land Galway feature

English jockey enjoys first winner in five years to prevail in Ireland’s ‘amateur Derby’ contest

Willie Mullins on course to try and secure Irish Oaks glory with Wathnan recruit Lope De Lilas

Jockey James Doyle set to team up with Mullins filly in Tuesday workout ahead of Saturday’s €500,000 classic

Aidan O’Brien’s Kyprios regains Gold Cup after classic battle at Royal Ascot

Trainer brings his record tally of winners at the meeting to 89 after Port Fairy lands Ribblesdale Stakes

Willie Mullins aiming for latest Gold Cup success as Vauban lines up in Ascot’s historic prize

Aidan O’Brien’s Kyprios favourite to reclaim stayers’ crown he won in 2022

Willie Mullins saves Irish blushes by winning the finale on day one of Royal Ascot with Belloccio

Henry Longfellow gets run down in closing stages of St James’s Palace Stakes by Curragh Guineas hero Rosallion

Royal Ascot extravaganza gives Irish racing opportunity for morale boost

Aidan O’Brien odds-on to be iconic meeting’s leading trainer for a 13th time

Aidan O’Brien keeps the faith in City Of Troy’s Derby credentials

Los Angeles joins City of Troy in Ballydoyle team as O’Brien targets record 10th Derby victory at Epsom

Classic disappointment in France for Aidan O’Brien but Los Angeles looks prime Derby player after Trial victory

Unbeaten Camelot colt Los Angeles is centrepiece of 30-1 four-timer for jockey Wayne Lordan at Leopardstown

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