Mullins is eyeing Korea glory with Riven Light
THE list of achievements which are absent from Willie Mullins’ incredible training CV are getting smaller and smaller and ‘miracle horse’ Riven Light bids to complete another remarkable feat for the Closutton maestro in Korea on Sunday.
Travelling abroad again with the Rich Ricci-owned six-yearold seemed like a no go after a leg fracture required screws to be inserted — and later removed — which left him “touch and go if he would live” when preparing for last year’s Melbourne Cup.
Doors were re-opened following his remarkable back-toback victory in the mile handicap at the Galway Festival in July, however, and the Raven’s Pass gelding is set to break new international ground in Seoul when lining up for the €770,000 Keeneland Korea Cup.
Riven Light has already arrived safely in Korea and will bid to continue Mullins’ spectacular form, after already banking €1.2m in jumps prize money as well as lying 10th in the Flat Trainers’ Championship with just over €400,000.
Having claimed Japan’s prestigious Nakayama Grand Jump in 2013 with Blackstairmountain and twice placed with Max Dynamite in the Melbourne Cup, it wouldn’t be a shock if Mullins took the 1m 1f contest.
The locally bred, Best Solution landed his second Group 1 victory for Godolphin when claiming the most prestigious race run in Germany — the Longines Grosser Preis Von Baden on Sunday.