IHRB to examine possibility of identity scans before races after Killarney mix-upThe logistics of racing horses on the other side of the world has become familiar to Mullins since he first tried to lift the Melbourne Cup all of 20 years go.
Max Dynamite was placed again when third to Rekindling in 2017, with Thomas Hobson sixth that year, and Mullins is keen to finally break his duck in what he describes as “the biggest international prize we could win”. “Him, or Kerrin McEvoy, or Damian Lane are the jockeys that are free and can do the weight. He has a very light weight, 8.6 I think, which is light in our context. They’re the options.
“It’s probably the biggest international race we could win. We don’t have horses for the Breeders’ Cup and that sort of thing,” he admitted.