Best Mullins horse ever?published at 13:05 Greenwich Mean Time
Gold Cup 16.00 GMT
Laura Scott
BBC sports news correspondent
Image source, Getty ImagesGroom Adam Connolly with Galopin des Champs during morning gallops ahead of today’s races
Looking at the odds for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, it isn’t obvious that Galopin Des Champs is bidding to do something so rare.
Only four horses, including the legendary Arkle and Best Mate, have ever won a hat-trick of Gold Cups.
And yet the Willie Mullins-trained horse is the odds-on favourite for the Gold Cup and meaningful challengers seem thin on the ground.
Mullins has more than 200 horses in training, and over the past 35 years has trained some stars of the sport.
But he said Galopin Des Champs – affectionately nicknamed “the good one” by stable staff – will rank as the best of them all if he wins the Cheltenham Festival showpiece on Friday.
