The team at Navan Racecourse is really looking forward to what is our flagship meeting and it’s great to see that the top trainers are once again coming out in force for the feature Ladbrokes Troytown Chase. Gordon certainly seems to have an appetite for landing the race for an unbelievable fifth time with 14 horses still in. 

A total of 37 horses remain in the reckoning for the Ladbrokes Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan on Sunday. Clear early favourite Pairofbrowneyes is among them as are leading ante-post fancies Minella Beau, Out Sam and Spider Web.    Willie Mullins has left three in the €100,000 event. In addition to Pairofbrowneyes and Minella Beau, the champion trainer could also call on the services Undressed, which would be having his first start for the champion trainer.  

By Ruby Walsh / Horse Racing :
I ride Minella Beau for Willie Mullins in the day’s feature race, the Troytown Handicap Chase (14:30).
I was going well enough when he fell at the third-last in the Paddy Power Cork Grand National. It’s hard to say whether I would have beaten Out Sam if we’d stayed up, but I was happy with where I was and how I was going. He’s only a novice but has a nice weight of 10st 6lb on his back.

Minella Beau with Ruby Walsh, Coral Eastment, Annette Mee and Willie Mullins after winning the Win Big With Tote

The Galway Festival – WP Mullins

Another to make a six-figure sum was Minella Beau, trained by Colin Bowe for owner John Nallen. Anthony Bromley, a colleague of Greatrex’s at Highflyer Bloodstock, made the winning bid of £100,000. Minella Beau, a son of King’s Theatre, will head to the powerful Willie Mullins stable.

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Trainer Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh after winning with Minella Beau

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What a shot - Minella Beau and Ruby Walsh fly towards the number one

August 2 2017 8:11 PM

Ruby Walsh registered his first victory at the 2017 Galway Festival when Minella Beau made a successful hurdling debut in the Win Big With Tote Maiden Hurdle.