The champion trainer’s huge team for Sandown’s Finale meeting on Saturday hit an early morning transport problem before they set off on Thursday
Willie Mullins’s path towards a second British jumps trainers’ championship hit a bump in the road on Thursday. While the reigning British and Irish champion jumps trainer closes in on a second title double on the track, off the track preparations have been less smooth.
Despite trailing leader Dan Skelton in the title race determined by prize-money, Mullins is 1-12 with bookmakers to seal the contest on bet365 Jumps Finale Day at Sandown on Saturday. Mullins has declared 21 horses for the meeting, ten of which which will run in the feature prize, the bet365 Gold Cup.
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The record-breaking trainer is used to transporting a large number of horses by ferry to Britain from his Closutton base in Co Carlow.
But on Thursday he had to overcome an unexpected hiccup when one of the lorries due to transport the horses would not start, causing an early-morning…
