OpinionPatrick Mullins
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Our bid for another jumps title is starting early - and I also think I was riding our next Cheltenham Gold Cup winner last season
The top amateur and award-winning writer runs us through the stars of the Closutton team for 2025-26

Some people allow chaos to reign, while others try to organise it.
I look at the videos of Ballydoyle and Seven Barrows and think how lovely and organised it looks. Lots of lists, dogs that don’t chase the horses, walkie-talkies, declarations decided the day before, if not the week before, and jeeps to move the trainers around.
Have you been to Closutton? And yet there is an order to Willie’s chaos. One day there may even be a name and a treatment for it.
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