Ireland's Willie Mullins - leader in the British jumps trainers championship - looks to Ludlow and Perth to cement title bid.
Willie Mullins has only had 24 British winners this season - but two were in the lucrative Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Grand NationalThe year-long race to become British horseracing's champion jockey and champion trainer for the season is still very much alive with just four days left of the 2023-24 jumps season.
He would be only the second Irishman to win the British title after Vincent O'Brien, who secured the prize for a second time 70 years ago. But his best bet of the day is Daddy Long Legs in the first at Ludlow - the first time he has entered a runner at the charming South Shropshire course, such is his keenness to claim a first British title. And ridden by his son Patrick.
Since training I Am Maximus to win the National at Aintree 11 days ago, to become a real live contender,The plan, ever since Aintree, was "to enter everything qualified in whatever races and see what happens.Warwickshire-based Skelton and Somerset's Nicholls are still within touching distance and are capable of overhauling Mullins if they have a good Saturday at Sandown, where there is a total pot of £700,000 on offer in prize money.
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