Discover the unsung heroes behind Team Mullins - as Willie auditions for creative director of the BBC

Little more than an uphill furlong from the door of George Mullins’ office, his big brother Willie is cordially advising a visiting BBC News crew on how best to improve the drone footage they’ve just filmed of his horses exercising on the intertwined gallops at Closutton. It’s one of those beautiful early spring mornings in County Carlow; the sun shines, the sky is bright blue and the crops in the surrounding fields are bursting with new growth energy. The air is laden with cheerful expectation. 

General Willie is marshalling his infantry, by now fully armed and primed for their upcoming skirmishes in the Cotswolds. But first they have to get there and come back again and there is an old military truism that states: battles are won by soldiers, wars are won by logistics.

George Mullins lives, breathes, eats, drinks and probably even dreams of horse logistics.