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I see he is riding one for his father at Hexham today. I believe he wants to ride a winner at every British jumps track.
Maybe he will achieve it eventually but I can’t help feeling a bit underwhelmed if all he is going to do is ride odds on steering jobs for his father. Although he did manage to get beaten on a 2/15 chance at Plumpton on the day before the Cheltenham festival.
He was at Kelso on Saturday for the bumper on a Derham hoss (last race) and backed into 6/4. 2nd.
Blind backing Always a dangerous game to play at those odds.
Outside of Cheltenham the Mullins’ raiders haven’t performed that well.
The more I know the less I understand.
He had a winner at Haydock last week.
I assume this one at Hexham will be primed and ready because it is a long way to go to get beaten.
At least he has got nice weather for it. Hexham is a beautiful track to be on a day like today but purgatory when it is raining.
And he steers the 2/9 chance home.
Anyone who took the 2/9 on a horse with more letters than numbers in his form is braver than me.
I don’t get this, what kind of feat would it be for a longstanding professional jockey to achieve odds-on wins on novice hurdlers? His father isn’t even in the hunt for the GB trainers’ title as he only sits in third or fourth some 1.4 million behind Skelton.
It seems to be some kind of vanity project for Patrick Mullins to ride a winner at every British track.
If he does it and it gives him some kind of satisfaction, then good for him. But I personally don’t see what is particularly impressive about turning up somewhere like Hexham once, steering a 2/9 chance home, tick it off the list and then never go back.
I have more respect for someone like Denis O’Regan with a winner at every British and Irish jumps track. I suppose he rode a few short priced favourites for Wylie/Johnson but it took years of effort to achieve. He wasn’t sauntering home on long odds on chances.
Having the aul’ midlife crisis a bit early innit?
I think he’s always hankered after the road not taken a bit.
If I was his missus I’d be raging that he kept buggering off to find himself in Fakenham or wherever , leaving me with the wean.
Likes a tick list, does Patrick. Cheltenham aren’t allowed abolish the Kim Muir till he wins it, and he’s probably going to keep eating Czech turf (or plough) till he wins the Pardubicka.
When he retires from the saddle it’ll be Ironman training next I expect. That Kona one probably. Or the Cresta Run.So you’re saying there is a chance Gaelic Warrior will turn up at Taunton ❤️🔥❤️🔥
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I get it. He’s 34 yrs old. Probably won’t be riding too much longer. If he wants to embark on a vanity project to ride a winner at all of the UK jump tracks, so be it. I’ll be rooting for him.
Maybe he enjoys riding at different racecourses. Must be boring as hell riding odds on shots around Clonmel or Thurles. Why not enjoy riding odds on shots at a fresh, different racecourse to break up the monotony.
As a racegoer, I’m sure many on this forum/message board have visited every racecourse in the UK or Ireland or both. As for me, living in the USA, I have only Killarney to visit in Ireland and Chelmsford City, Brighton and Salisbury to visit in the UK. God willing, I’ll do it. Why, because I love the diversity of racecourses and racecourse culture in Ireland and the UK; as well as the 15 other countries I gone racing.
It’s heartwarming to see an amateur jockey doing so well…
I suspect those small local yards planning to run in a novice hurdle at Hexham were delighted to find their slim chances of even landing a Class 4 knocked back by the big boys barging in to win the pot. Still, I suppose they know that now he’s won there on his only ride, Closutton will not be bringing any more over.
Given his father now needs every penny towards the Trainers Championship, can we expect the son to be turning up to steer a few more odds on chances home at tracks he has never ridden at before?
Of course, CAS. There will be plenty of easy races to be won. Especially in the novice hurdling department.
The fake amateur gets beaten on a 1/3 chance at Fakenham.
I suppose he will have to make another trip to Norfolk to tick it off the list.
Still got a 1/2 shot- in the Gigginstown silks in the bumper with only 3 rivals to beat. Horse cost €225k. Maybe grim determination and good old Corinthian spirit will get them home.
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