Mulholland four-timer escapes the media
Your quiz question for this week: which Jumps trainer enjoyed a four-timer last week? If you're scouring results from the meagre four UK jumps fixtures since last Monday, then a clue: look further afield. Four winners at Les Landes Racecourse on Jersey - two Jump and 2 Flat - gave Bath trainer Neil Mulholland a great fillip before the weekend when he was in the money again at Uttoxeter. That there is a racecourse on Jersey at all is a triumph of perseverance over logic on so
Pointing wraps up as dual purpose trainers prove their mettle at Ascot
The eyes of the racing world have largely been on Royal Ascot this week, but even as £6m was showered on the blue bloods of thoroughbred aristocracy in Berkshire, the summer jumps campaign has been continuing, and the last of the season's Point-to-Point fixtures saw the season out in fine style at Kingston Blount. Two jumps trainers who have won themselves as strong a reputation on the Flat sent teams to Ascot this week. Ian Williams, son of West Country jumps trainer Bob Wil
On the eve of Ascot, we celebrate another Mullins
South Wiltshire's finest have been putting themselves back in the news this week as the rest of the racing world limbers up for the splendour of Royal Ascot starting on Tuesday. There can be fewer starker contrasts in racing than the pomp and ceremony of a full-blooded Ascot and a day's summer jumping at Southwell, but the latter is a more regular haunt just now for Wilsford's Seamus Mullins, whose Kentford Mallard was a 4l winner of the Bramley Newspaper Mares Handicap Hurdl
Reikers Island enjoy Cartmel romp
Mendip Farmers - qualified Reikers Island scored a first victory under Rules when taking the Molson Coors Hunters Chase at Cartmel this afternoon, also bringing up a first racecourse winner for rider Daniel Cherriman. The eight year old son of four time Ascot Gold Cup winner Yeats has been round the houses in the past six months, switching stables no less than three times since the middle of January until this success under Lawney Hill. Winner of a Borris House maiden in Dece
West Country trainers hold their own at Stratford's Hunters' evening
The Spring Point-to-Point season in the Wessex counties of Wiltshire, Somerset and Dorset has been among the worst affected areas where organisers felt unable to stage fixtures. Just four fixtures have been staged since the resumption of the sport on March 29, during a period that would normally see more than double that number. However, that hasn't proved a disincentive to handlers prepared to travel further north to the Midlands courses, or back west into Devon and Cornwall
