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BRILLIANT, legendary, genius, dominant, maestro — words which describe Willie Mullins perfectly.
Genial, and a right proper gent too.
And the fact Mullins is such a nice guy means there were no grumbles in Britain when the king of Closutton respectfully lifted his trilby at Sandown in April.
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Even the punters were rooting for him. Gracious Mullins is popular despite his dominance and that says so much about him.
Fred Winter, Vincent O’Brien, Tom Dreaper, Martin Pipe and Paul Nicholls were all top of the charts — but none of them got to the level Mullins has reached on both sides of the Irish Sea.
To have a winner at the Cheltenham Festival has always been the holy grail, but for the Closutton handler his week is simply a failure if he does not bag at least five winners at Prestbury Park.
The only way his rivals might lay a glove on him is if he turns his back on the sport.
Fat chance.
He said: “Winning is never boring. The horses we buy are available to everyone. Hopefully we’ll be at the top for another five years with all the youngsters coming through.”
And Mullins, 68, is driven by a fear of failure, having watched successful trainers fall by the wayside in the past.
He added: “I try to learn lessons from other trainers down the years. I’m always amazed, when you look at some fantastic trainers, why it reaches a pitch and then it goes down.
“You ask yourself: “What did they do wrong?
“I try to analyse everything. The system we have here has been working so far. That’s why we are the team on top at the moment but it could all change.”
I hate to be the one to break the news to Willie, but the changing of the guard is unlikely.
He is currently sitting on a record 103 Cheltenham Festival winners with Nicky Henderson second on 73.
Records are there to be broken, but Mullins is smashing them — he’s a tour de force!
Last season he won 285 races in Britain and Ireland and well over £10m in prize money.
Not only was he champion trainer in Ireland he was also champ in Britain, a feat which has not been achieved since the legendary Vincent O’Brien did it way back in 1954.
Mullins smiled: “It’s probably a once in a lifetime thing, but we’ve done it, 70 years after Vincent O’Brien.”
And there are no signs of Mullins’ battalion slowing down in Britain and Ireland — all you have to do is take one glance at the talent he has at his disposal.
Dual Gold Cup hero Galopin Des Champs heads the long list of stars but he might not have things all his own way in the staying division because stablemate Fact To File looks a serious threat to his crown.
Arkle hero Gaelic Warrior is an extraordinary horse and Mullins reckons he could be the perfect Christmas present in the King George at Kempton.
Lossiemouth is an exciting contender for the Champion Hurdle and it will be interesting to see if she runs in Britain or takes on her stablemate and reigning champion State Man in Ireland.
The Closutton legend is strong in all departments and he has the market leaders for every novice race.
It would take forever to list every contender he hs but there is no doubt Ballyburn is the star of the show.
He already looks the Irish banker for the Arkle at the Cheltenham Festival.
Mullins is never one to keep standing still and has been busy at the sales.
Here are a few purchases to keep an eye on: Leader des Bordes (€210,000), Arslan (€180,000), Boedic (€175,000) and Blue Velvet (€170,000).
Leader des Bordes is by Tunis and his half-brother has already started making waves.
After buying the former, bloodstock expert Harold Kirk said: “I always knew he was going to be very popular, as he’s a stunning horse with a huge pedigree. He’s for an existing owner in the yard.
“His half-brother [Kopek Des Bordes] won the Tattersalls Ireland George Mernagh Memorial Bumper last season and we’ll be hoping this one can win the Goffs Defender Bumper next year. That’ll be the first plan anyway.”
Arslan finished second on his sole point-to-point at Tralee last May.
Boedic was a top lot on day of the Tattersalls Ireland sales in June.
He is by No Risk At All and Kirk said: “He is a stunning individual, has fantastic movement and he just ticked every box.
“Every time I saw him, I loved him more and he is for an owner in Willie’s yard.”
Blue Velvet unseated in his only point-to-point when leading and sent off 2-1 fav, but was still picked up by Mullins and Kirk a few days later.
STABLE STAR
GALOPIN DES CHAMPS has won two Gold Cups and still has plenty left in the tank to complete the hat-trick in the Blue Riband at Cheltenham.
Willie says: “He’s a superstar. He gallops, he jumps, he stays. What more do you need?”
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BALLYBURN produced one of the best performances in the Gallagher Novices’ Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival and he looks a special talent.
Willie says: “Once Ballyburn learns to settle I think he’ll be a super horse.”
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QUAI DE BOURBON might not have the sexy profile of some of his stablemates, but he was just marking time over timber before he is unleashed over fences.
Willie says: “He’s a really strong stayer and could be a huge improver once he sees a fence over a trip.”
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PORT JOULAIN was an impressive winner of a Gowran Park bumper in March.
The likes of Yorkhill, Bob Olinger and Journey With Me have all won that race before going on to better things.
He flopped at Punchestown but he still rates a top prospect for hurdling.
Willie says: “I was very pleased with him at Gowran Park. He’s a real galloper and could reach the top as a chaser or hurdler.”
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NICKY HENDERSON has seen it all over the past 50 years. The good, the bad and the ugly.
But the six-time champ has never had a virus strike his yard at the worst possible time — on the eve of the Cheltenham Festival.
It’s the meeting that Hendo, 73, targets more than any other and his 73 winners at the big one in March is second only to the dominant Willie Mullins.
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There were one or two worrying signs in February when a few runners were running below their best.
But the alarm bells were ringing loud and clear when reigning champion hurdler Constitution Hill went to Kempton for a routine racecourse gallop — only to struggle up the straight miles behind two stablemates.
It transpired the seven-year-old was suffering with a throat infection, and tests on other horses in the yard found that plenty of them were under the weather.
Henderson had to withdraw a host of Festival contenders, drawing a blank at the meeting for the first time in 16 years.
He said: “It was a very unlucky season in many ways. If you think about what happened, Shishkin threw away the King George, the Fighting Fifth didn’t happen, and Constitution Hill and others didn’t get to Cheltenham.
“The way Jonbon ended the season you would have to say he probably would have won the Champion Chase with the way it was run in the end.
“People said it was a disaster but in the end it wasn’t. We won some nice races and over two million in prize-money, it was just the timing of things that was catastrophic.
“It was pretty brutal, we had to just take a month off to get things right.”
No doubt, Hendo finished on a high with a glut of Grade 1 wins at Aintree and Sandown.
Sir Gino, who was the hot favourite for the Triumph at Cheltenham before being scratched at the last minute, showed what he was capable of with an easy win at Aintree, while JP McManus’ Jonbon won both the Melling Chase and Celebration Chase.
He ended the season with 91 winners, £2,222,622 in prize money and fourth place in the trainers’ standings, behind Mullins, Dan Skelton and Paul Nicholls.
He is the 14-1 outsider of the four to win the trainers’ title but, if his stable stars stay healthy and the emerging young talent in the yard progress through the ranks as expected, he could be a dark horse in the title race.
Aside from the obvious, the likes of Constitution Hill, Jonbon and Sir Gino, there are several potential Grade 1 stars in Seven Barrows.
The likes of Shanagh Bob, who won a Grade 2 at Cheltenham in December and was fourth in a Grade 1 at Aintree on his final start of the campaign.
The six—year-old is set to kick off his chasing career this winter.
As will Jeriko Du Reponet, who was allowed to take his chance in the Supeme at Cheltenham but was pulled up by Nico de Boinville when it was clear he wasn’t going to give his running.
Promising youngsters Kingston Pride and Joyeuse will have big targets over hurdles in the coming months.
And Hendo will also train the most expensive horse ever bought to go jumping this season in the shape of Germany Derby winner Palladium.
He cost £1.2 million at the sales earlier this month and will run in the colours of Hendo’s long-time ally Lady Bamford.
STABLE STAR
CONSTITUTION HILL will try to regain his Champion Hurdle crown in 2025.
He only made the track once last year, winning the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton, but his health issues from January onwards prevented him running again.
Hendo says: “His season was fraught with disaster as the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle was abandoned and we had to wait for the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton which he won in style. The Fighting Fifth will, once again, be his target and let’s hope we have an uninterrupted run, and he gets back where he belongs.”
FESTIVAL FANCY
SHANAGH BOB was a distant fourth in the Sefton Novices’ Hurdle at Aintree in April, but he is fancied to take high rank in the staying novice chase division this winter.
Hendo says: “He has grown considerably during the summer and chasing will be his primary objective this season. He could well be very, very good over fences.”
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JONBON has been a star for Hendo for the past few years, taking his Grade 1 tally to seven with wins at Aintree and Sandown in the spring.
Hendo says: “He was our flagship horse last season and he will have a similar programme to last year, with the Shloer, Tingle Creek, Clarence House and Champion Chase.”
DARK HORSE
PALLADIUM won the German Derby earlier in the year and was bought at the sales in France earlier this month before heading to Seven Barrows.
He is one of the most high-profile Flat horses to go hurdling in decades.
Hendo says: “He is the most beautiful horse to look at. He is still an entire horse and we will take our time with him. If he likes the hurdles then there will be some races for him but I am sure he will go on the Flat too.”
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INTER MIAMI’S addition to the Club World Cup has left Major League Soccer rivals furious with Fifa.
Gianni Infantino, the Fifa president, announced this week that David Beckham’s MLS franchise will take the America host nation spot for next summer’s controversial tournament.
Infantino pointed to Inter Miami winning the Supporters Shield, awarded to the club who perform the best over the regular season, as the reason for their qualification.
The actual MLS champion is decided through the play-offs.
But with the reason for Miami’s inclusion not given before they lifted the trophy, their rivals have accused Fifa of having no clear qualification criteria.
And they claim they have jumped the gun simply to ensure that Lionel Messi is involved in the revamped 32-team tournament.
Seattle Sounders are the other team from the US involved and they booked their spot having won the Concacaf Champions Cup in 2022.
Fifa had been in discussions with MLS over criteria this season, before deciding on the Supporters Shield winner at their Council meeting on October 3 – the day after Miami sealed the title.
MLS insist all decision making around the final slot was dealt with by the world governing body.
Not only have Beckham’s boys been given the host nation spot, but they will also play in the curtain raiser in Miami on June 15.
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Other clubs have always felt that Miami have had special treatment from the league due to their high profile stars – something which has always been denied.
Four ex-Barcelona legends are in the squad – Messi, Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets.
Their success on the pitch this season, setting a points record for the regular season, gives officials a simple answer when questions are asked.
Elite European sides like Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Manchester City, Chelsea, PSG, Inter Milan, Juventus, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are all in the Club World Cup.
IT is 40 years since Dame Claire Bertschinger was a nurse on the front line of the devastating famine in Ethiopia, deciding which starving children to save.
But the torment of not being able to feed them all will never truly leave her.
Haunting footage in a 1984 BBC News report by Michael Buerk — which showed Claire caring for babies with only the scantest of supplies — shocked the world.
The harrowing film, which aired four decades ago tomorrow, would go on to inspire charity Band Aid single Do They Know It’s Christmas? — followed by the Live Aid concert the next year — and raise around £120million for the African country.
Among the hordes of hungry youngsters to feature in the appeal was three-year-old Birhan Woldu.
Her frail image was beamed from the screen at Live Aid, her life appearing to slowly ebb away.
But today, we can reveal that Birhan, now 43, survived the famine and became a nurse herself — and that she and Claire still keep in touch.
In fact, Claire, 71, has been back to Ethiopia to visit Birhan and her daughter, born in 2011 and named Claire after the Brit aid worker.
In an exclusive interview, she said: “It is an honour that Birhan named her daughter after me.
“People will know her from being the tiny girl in footage at Live Aid being carried by her father to the tune Drive by The Cars.
“And now she is a beautiful woman, she is a mother, she got a degree and is a nurse.
“We’re still in touch. She’s a wonderful woman. She doesn’t really speak English, but we can zap an email to each other.
“I have been to see her and little Claire. It is very special.”
Of the famous news broadcast that first highlighted the desperate situation in Ethiopia, Claire added: “I had no idea it had had the impact that it did.
“I was experiencing starving people all day, every day, and trying my best and doing my job.
“What the BBC filmed was just a snapshot of what was going on.
“But the report had an amazing effect. Before that, people had no idea of the suffering in Ethiopia. It just shows you how important it is reporting these things.
“After that report, and the subsequent Band Aid fundraising, we had several Hercules planes every day full of supplies to help people there, not just once a month. It was amazing, wonderful.”
Claire, of Somerset, who was made a Dame in the late Queen’s 2010 Honours, told how she found herself unable to talk about her experiences in Ethiopia for 20 years.
And she revealed she was initially sceptical about 1984 song Do They Know It’s Christmas? — featuring huge stars including Bob Geldof, Bono, Midge Ure and George Michael — as she thought: “We’re going to need a lot more than a band aid here.”
Claire, who had previously been posted in Beirut, was working as a nurse for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) when she received a call asking her to go to Ethiopia in June 1984.
She said: “I was told, ‘We need somebody in Ethiopia. Would you like to go?’. I’d never been to Africa so I thought, ‘Yes, I’d love to’.
“I had no real gauge of just how serious the situation was.
“There was already a nurse for the ICRC over there who had set up a feeding station, which I would go to.” Thousands of people had already died and seven million were threatened with starvation in the war-torn country.
I was told, ‘We need somebody in Ethiopia. Would you like to go?’. I’d never been to Africa so I thought, ‘Yes, I’d love to’
Dame Claire Bertschinger
Claire, who was 27 at the time, added: “I can remember seeing masses of starving men, women, children in just tattered rags.
“There was a drought and people had been displaced. But at that time it started to rain very heavily. The ground turned into a quagmire.
“It was horrendous. The situation was so desperate that people were just skin and bones. They had no fat, they had just skin dropping off their bones.”
There were so few resources available that Claire had to choose who would be fed and saved.
She recalled once going outside to select the 60 or 70 starving children they could provide for that day — only to find there were more than a thousand waiting for food.
Claire explained: “I would take the ones who had sort of a spark of life in their eyes, and just mark them.
“I marked them with a bit of coal on their head, on their arm, and I knew the rest would not survive the next ten days, because there was no food.
“The thing was, we didn’t have sufficient general rations for everybody at that time. I had to focus on what we could do.
“There were often 500 kids, some vomiting, some wanting to eat, some not wanting to eat, some screaming their heads off.
“I didn’t have time to think of the bigger global picture.”
But in October that year, a BBC crew including Michael Buerk arrived.
Claire said: “They had got on a small, light aircraft and flown in and come to my feeding centre. It was very unexpected. And they wanted to come and film.
It was horrendous. The situation was so desperate that people were just skin and bones. They had no fat, they had just skin dropping off their bones
Dame Claire Bertschinger
“I was trying to feed the kids, and also do a little medical clinic. And I remember them asking me to stand among the children who were really bad and starving.
“I just remember him asking me this one particular question about having to select the children who were fed, saying, ‘How does that make you feel?’.
“I thought, ‘What a stupid question!’. I just told him, ‘It breaks my heart’.
“I remember trying to get rid of them as quickly as possible. I didn’t want them there because of them getting in the way. What they got was a snapshot of the desolation. They were there for a blink in the eye of the day. I lived it every day.”
In the days that followed, Buerk’s report was aired on the BBC news, including his questioning of Claire and his famous description of the feeding centre as “the closest thing to hell on Earth”.
The report sent shockwaves around the world and sparked a huge fundraising drive — but Claire had no idea.
She said: “There was no phone, there was no internet. I would get a letter from my mother saying they saw me on the TV, but I didn’t even give it another thought I was so immersed in my job.”
One person the report touched was Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof, who decided to bring in some of the biggest music stars to make a charity record for Ethiopia.
Claire said: “I had a shortwave radio — sometimes you could hear what they were saying, and sometimes you couldn’t.
“I remember them talking about this song by Band Aid called Do They Know It’s Christmas?.
“I thought, ‘It’s going to need more than a band aid to fix the issues here’, and I remember thinking, ‘Of course they don’t know it’s Christmas, they have a completely different calendar in Ethiopia’.
“I was sceptical. But then the planes arrived that were funded by the charity donations from around the world.”
I thought, ‘It’s going to need more than a band aid to fix the issues here’, and I remember thinking, ‘Of course they don’t know it’s Christmas, they have a completely different calendar in Ethiopia’
Dame Claire Bertschinger
In fact, a Hercules aircraft packed with food rations touched down days after Claire first heard the hit single.
She said: “I was told this Hercules plane was going to arrive, and I should go and meet it at the airport.
“And the doors opened, it was full of supplies. And I thought, ‘Wow, this is amazing. We’re saved’.
“By Christmas time, we had several feeding centres. It prevented a lot of deaths.
“It made me realise how wonderful Michael Buerk’s report had been and the fundraising Band Aid had done afterwards.
“That stupid question of the song title was probably the best thing that could have happened.”
However, witnessing the plight of Ethiopian families has had a lasting effect on Claire.
She said: “Going home was hard. People didn’t understand the extent of what I had seen. They kept saying what I had done was marvellous, but I didn’t think what I’d done was marvellous at all. It affected me.”
Do They Know It’s Christmas? went straight to No1 in December 1984.
And the following year, Live Aid, hosted simultaneously at Wembley stadium and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, was beamed around the world, featuring performances from huge acts, including Queen and Elton John.
The two projects raised around £120million for relief in Ethiopia.
For the 20th anniversary in 2004, Claire went back to Ethiopia with Michael Buerk.
Going home was hard. People didn’t understand the extent of what I had seen. They kept saying what I had done was marvellous, but I didn’t think what I’d done was marvellous at all. It affected me
Dame Claire Bertschinger
She said: “I met people who remembered me. It was very touching. But it was like opening a wound. It felt very painful, and it was painful for months later.
“It doesn’t give you closure, because the experience is always there, but you move on.”
However, Claire was heartened to see a stronger country when she visited again years later.
She said: “I went back over in 2015, this time with Bob Geldof.
“It was wonderful to see the new roads, hospitals, educational buildings, all through fundraising efforts.”
Sadly, in Ethiopia, conflict has been raging again and Claire said: “Fighters have destroyed the hospitals, moved everything from inside the hospitals, destroyed schools, looted everything and are killing. It is extremely worrying.”
Practising Buddhist Claire, who retired from her role as a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in January, believes there needs to be more understanding in the world.
On Friday, she and Michael Buerk, along with others, will hold a talk at the London School of Economics about the Ethiopian famine and fundraising efforts.
She said: “I feel that there’s sufficient food in the world for everybody, and that we have to find an alternative to fighting war.
“We have to do it through seeing each person as human and not seeing them as the other side.
“I am proud of my work and, 40 years on, am very glad of the impact that the BBC report from Ethiopia made.
“Stories like Birhan’s are a reminder we have made a difference. We are making a difference, and shouldn’t stop.”
