Willie Mullins is coaching the primary racehorse owned by King Charles III and Queen Camilla to be primarily based in Eire.
Reaching Excessive, previously skilled by Sir Michael Stoute in Newmarket earlier than his retirement, has been moved to Mullins’ County Carlow stables and is because of run at Leopardstown on Friday.
Jody Townend will take the trip within the Woman Riders Handicap on the four-year-old gelding, who’s being geared toward a Royal Ascot run subsequent month.
The Royal couple personal racehorses skilled by a wide range of British trainers together with Andrew Balding, John and Thady Gosden, William Haggas, Ralph Beckett and Nicky Henderson.
It’s believed Reaching Excessive, who has received considered one of his eight races, would be the first horse owned by a reigning British monarch to be skilled in Eire.
The transfer is the newest landmark in an illustrious profession for record-breaking champion Irish coach Mullins, who received the British bounce trainers’ championship for the second 12 months final month.
“We have been launched to King Charles and Queen Camilla at Royal Ascot final 12 months,” Mullins told the Irish Field., external
“The subsequent factor, we bought a cellphone name asking if we’d take a horse for them.
“He might be a contender for the Ascot Stakes over two and a half miles on the opening day of Royal Ascot. His pedigree is all stamina, so these form of races may go well with him.”
Mullins has received the Ascot Stakes 4 instances, together with in 2012 with Simenon, who a 12 months later was denied by Queen Elizabeth II’s Gold Cup winner Estimate – the dam of Reaching Excessive – within the Ascot function race.
