Willie Mullins to Gatecrash Royal Ascot with ‘exciting’ £ 100,000 Gold Cup Horse

Willie Mullins has set his sights on Gatecrashing Royal Ascot – with an ‘exciting’ £ 100,000 horse that won on debut.

Sober will see Champagne Corks popping up in the winner’s housing if he can come close to next month’s Gold Cup.

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A dual winner of group 2 in France, Mullins Bought the former Andre Fabre-trained runner at the Arqana Arc Sale in October last year.

Never to hurry to hurry his top talent, Mullins remained sober, who also finished third in the group 1 Prix Royal-Oak in 2022, to the Gallops Closutton by the winter.

But Camelot’s six -year -old son was finally released in an apparently ordinary 2m4F starting obstacle in Killarney on Monday.

Initially available at 5-6, soberly declined from the shelves to win on 4-11 under Mullins’ No1 Rider Paul Townend.

Although jumping did not really look like his game – he won £ 275,000 racing on the flat in France – sober, who called gamblers a ‘exciting’ prospect, finally nicely heated on his task.

And after the latter he had always held the 120-rated runner-up Arch Empire, trained by Gordon Elliott and giving sober 6 pounds.

Bookmakers were not so impressed by the way of victory, which made him as large as 33-1 for the Ascot function.

And he will definitely have to improve bundles to see the title defender Kyprios of Aidan O’Brien.

But champion British and Irish jumping trainer Mullins – who recently snarling ‘the most exciting horse for next season’ at the sale – Clearly understands sober in high greetings.

And he could follow the same path to greatness as one of his stable stars.

Ebor and County Hurdle King Absurde won the same Killarney race two years ago.

He then went to Ascot and finished second to Vauban in the Koperen Horse Handicap Winning the £ 300,000 York race under Frankie Dettori.

A great Dual-Purupose artist, he raised mega-current as seventh and fifth in the Melbourne Cup and recently added a Sussex champion hurdle to his resume.

The parallels do not end there.

Both absurd and sober were bred by the richest owners of Racing, the multi-billionaire brothers Alain and Gerard Wertheimer.

Bosses of Luxury Fashion Brand Chanel, they have an estimated combined richness of £ 50 billion and have bred different group 1 winners, including Arc winner of 2012 Solemia and Breeders’ Cup Legend Goldikova.

Towning was impressed after the debut that showed – and hinted his future on the flat.

He said: “Sober has a lot of ability and hopefully Hurdling will just sharpen him.

“I lost a length of many obstacles and it hangs a bit.

“He will jump well on time and I would say it was a good achievement to win.”

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