Equinties - Mullins’ NR’s

October 27, 2022

Equinties

Gm Equinauts

I think we saw a good horse yesterday. Called it ;)

Now, let’s dive in.

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I was sitting in the pub last night (drinking a beautiful pint of Guinness) trying to work out wtf to write about in today's newsletter.

And then this happened. Good lord it was beautiful.

Right on cue, when I genuinely thought we’d have to scrap today's newsletter for lack of content, Neill Callan saved the day with a fucking fantastic ride on BALLET BLANC.

For an experienced jockey who, from his last 12 rides has finished 7x in the money, it was a glorious incident to happen - and in the last race of the night no less!

Some big owners expressed their sympathy for the lad

But honestly, Neill, from the bottom of our hearts from everyone here at BGP Capital THANK YOU.

The Willie Mullins sausage factory

Like any professional sport, no one gives a fuck if you’re injured. The show goes on and those who can’t perform are effectively in the bin until the head coach/manager/trainer can use you again. Injury taking too long? Don’t worry, the sausage factory will churn out another to replace you.

When Willie Mullins invited Ireland’s top journalists to Closutton yesterday to preview his stars for the 2022/23 season, (most of the information that came out of the yard was pointless), the more noteworthy read was the horses who won’t be seen anytime soon.

THE NICE GUY, unbeaten in five races last season, finished his season with a double Grade 1 win at both Cheltenham and Punchestown – he was lining up for a tilt at the Grade 1 Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase at the Cheltenham Festival this season before yesterday’s news.

How are your ante-post bets looking now?

The next horse who has suffered a setback is JAMES’S GATE.

Third in last season’s Grade 1 Champion Bumper behind FACILE VEGA before only mustering fourth back at Punchestown when the 4/9 favourite, this five-year-old is a general 10/1 shot for the Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle but has yet to return to Mullins’ yard from his pre-training - he could yet feature this season as the timescale of his setback is unknown.

This comes just days after the announcement that REDEMPTION DAY would miss the season following a setback – he ran a brilliant race at Punchestown behind FACILE VEGA and looked like a future star for the Champion Irish Trainer.

To add to the season absentees, Henry de Bromhead confirmed that the 2021 Triumph Hurdle winner QUILIXIOS will miss the rest of the season – these Irish horses are dropping like flies!

If you want to read more, use the links below.

Willie Mullins Stable Tour - part 1 | Jumps | At The Races & Sky Sports Racing

The all-conquering Willie Mullins on his galaxy of established stars who again look set to light up a new season.

Henry de Bromhead Stable Tour | Jumps | At The Races & Sky Sports Racing

The Knockeen trainer’s star-studded string includes unbeaten superstar Honeysuckle and Cheltenham Gold Cup heroes A Plus Tard and Minella Indo.

HIT the roof? Through the roof!

Juddmonte has had a great season in the two-year-old department this year and they have capitalised on this as their juvenile son of SEA THE STARS was sold for 525,000gns to Athbah Racing.

Out of TIME CHASER, a full-sister to TIME TEST, he won two races for John & Thady Gosden and finished second on three more occasions – here is what Dr Abdul Moniem had to say about their purchase.

The Gosdens also saw another of their promising stars leave their stable yesterday as MAGISTERIAL, a Leicester novice winner in April, sold to Yousef MA Alturaif for 425,000gns – he was sent off at an SP of 6/1 when he finished last of eight in the Dante to DESERT CROWN earlier this season.

However, these John & Thday Gosden horses were not the top lot of the day, that place was reserved for Richard Hannon’s FANCY MAN who was sold for 675,000 to Blanford Bloodstock - his last win came seven starts ago in a Listed event Lingfield and only achieved a peak rating of 109 as a four-year-old.

And with Godolphin buying all of these yearlings for extortionate amounts of money, Sheikh Mo had to let go of some of his lesser horses eventually and that is something he did yesterday, offloading FINEST SOUND for 350,000gns to Najd Stud – running in the Sheikh’s personal colours for Simon & Ed Crisford, the five-year-old by EXCEED AND EXCEL hit a peak rating of 112 this season following good runs behind JADOOMI, MODERN GAMES, and ALFLAILA.

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