Robbie Wilders

2 days ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |Jack Haynes

Good luck to anyone taking on Willie Mullins at this time of year. A glance at his entries for Sandown’s final day of the jumps season, and significantly the £175,000 bet365 Gold Cup, suggests the British trainers’ title will be his and Dan Skelton will fall short again. Mullins is responsible for a huge 44 per cent of the potential runners for one of Britain’s richest spring handicap chases.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |David Milnes

Like all Classic trials the significance of the Nell Gwyn varies from year to year. Three seasons ago it gave us Cachet, who struck at Newmarket a few weeks later. The past two runnings, meanwhile, have failed to produce a top miler. Connections of Arabian Dusk will hope that changes. She comes out 7lb clear on adjusted Racing Post Ratings, but that is testament to her busy two-year-old season. Her direct rivals were not precocious enough to be granted the same opportunities.

2 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |David Milnes

There are historically stronger 1,000 Guineas trials than the Fred Darling. Yet the 2024 running provided the most pertinent pointer towards the Newmarket Classic, although that seemed unlikely at the time. Folgaria ran to a Racing Post Rating of merely an average Fred Darling winner when getting the best of Regal Jubilee and Elmalka, a surprise Classic scorer 15 days later, in a bunched finish. There is more depth to this season’s field and Simmering sets a decent standard.

2 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |Richard Birch

Willie Mullins' flooding of Ayr's biggest card is nothing new. His approach to the big one could be described as scattergun and we are seeing something similar in the Scottish Champion Hurdle. The Patrick Mullins-ridden Ethical Diamond rounded off a Closutton 1-3-4 in the County Hurdle behind stablemates Kargese and Absurde, who were short in Scottish Champion ante-post betting before declarations.

2 weeks ago | racingpost.com | Robbie Wilders |Catherine Macrae

A Willie Mullins plunge horse in the Scottish Grand National was almost inevitable after events at Aintree last week confirmed his all-out assault on the British trainers’ title. What is more surprising is the fact Chosen Witness is the big one for money among 11 Closutton entries. Chosen Witness, winner of the novice handicap hurdle on this card last year, has yet to show any worthwhile chase form.