Willie Mullins plant ‘big surprise’ worth £ 60k for King Charles at Royal Ascot

Willie Mullins says it was a ‘big surprise’ to get a historic royal horse to train – and he wants to pay back King Charles with Ascot Glory.

Highly reached, which was bred by the late Queen Elizabeth II, is the first horse to be trained in Ireland by a reigning monarch.

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Legend jumps Mullins Nowadays makes more and more splash in flat racing.

And he could break all kinds of new land if it had to reach high King Something to smile about day one of the largest flat festival in Racing.

Previously trained by Sir Michael Stoute, High was refused a debut victory under Mullins in Leopardstown earlier this month.

The four -year -old gelding went down in a main bobber after he ended up like a train.

Mullins has since the Racing post That the Ascot Stakes looks like his next race.

The 2m5½f competition is worth £ 60,000 for the winner.

Mullins knows what it takes to land and has it victorious with the stratum of Brighton Boss Tony Bloom in 2021 and 2022.

And Ireland has a stranglehold on the race, with Joseph O’Brien claiming it in the past two years with Dawn Rising and Uxmal.

Mullins, who will look to maintain the handle of his country in the class 2 handicap, said: “It is an honor and a big surprise to be asked (to train a royal horse).

It is nice to have a horse in that position and it is very exciting.

“I probably look at the race of two and a half miles (Ascot Stakes), but we will look at both stay races on the first day.

“If you look at his family tree, it’s all endurance. He seems to stay very good.”

King Charles actually rode at Cheltenham Festival, where Mullins dominates, but the royal runners tend to concentrate on the flat.

Of them, the estimate of Gold Cup Hero was by far the best, but the king and the queen had a great success with Desert Hero in 2023.

Aly by sea the stars and bred by the late Queen, he was an exciting 18-1 Royal Ascot winner, Reduce the king to tears.

He then won the Group 3 Gordon Stakes in Glorious Goodwood before he finished third in the St Army – the last classic of the season – at Doncaster.

There had been fears King Charles would drastically cut the multi-million pounds of Royal Race Operation After he inherited it.

But Queen Camilla remains a huge supporter of the sport and the couple still has many horses in training with people like Nicky Henderson about jumps and William Haggas, Ralph Beckett and John and Thady Gosden on the flat.

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