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‘He blew my mind’ – Is this horse Willie Mullins’ Cheltenham Festival banker?
We learnt plenty from events at the Dublin Racing Festival last weekend, especially about the Willie Mullins string. He dominated proceedings once again with seven winners across the two days and six of those came in Grade 1s. One of the most impressive performances came in a novice hurdle and the horse in question could well be Willie Mullins’ Cheltenham Festival banker.
Mullins himself has been very vocal about how much the horse impressed him last weekend. Check out our free tips page for daily content across British and Irish racing.
‘That was a huge statement’
Kopek Des Bordes is now the big favourite for the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle and it’s easy to see why. He destroyed the opposition in the Grade 1 Tattersalls Ireland Novice Hurdle on Sunday and is very much the one to beat at Cheltenham on that evidence.
Mullins said of the performance: “It blew my mind, especially against a field of top-class horses. Paul got off him after the race and told me ‘he ran away with me three times in the race’, mostly if a horse runs away once, their winning chance is gone.”
The straight-talking Ted Walsh was also impressed according to Mullins and the latter added: “Ted Walsh rang me the following morning and he said he hadn’t seen a performance like that since Golden Cygnet. It’s probably the first time he’s rung to say anything like that. For him to come out and say something like that was a huge statement, I think.”
There will be punters looking to take him on in March but if you take these comments at face value, they aren’t going to have much luck.
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