Willie has achieved £/€10m in one season. Skelton just needs to do what he’s done this year and then double it.
Skelton appears set on complete domination at any cost. 264 individual horses ran last season so that doesn’t include his unraced stores, juveniles etc. He will be pushing 350 over the next five years and then who knows where he goes from there?
He can see the numbers Elliott (325) and Willie (295) have run and clearly wants what they have but I suspect he wants much more than that still.
Skelton’s is not a stable, it’s a burgeoning horse farm and he’d probably milk them if he could.
His nearest rival in terms of horse numbers in the UK is Murphy with 192 last season with perennial underachiever Fergal O’Brien next with 158. In comparison Hendo and Nicholls ran 105 and 126 individual horses respectively.
Dull times ahead domestically it seems.