'Plumpton? Never heard of it' - behind the scenes with the Skelton and Mullins camps as title fever took hold
Champions: Full Gallop has several compelling story lines for the second season of the docuseries
The epic title tussle between Dan Skelton and Willie Mullins we’ve been gifted from absolutely nowhere – sparked by an utterly unbelievable 1-2-3-5-7 for the latter in the Grand National, sustained by raids on Ayr, Cheltenham and Plumpton, and going right down to the wire at Sandown this weekend – has caused all sorts of emotions. Chief among them is anticipation, because I simply cannot wait for season two of Champions: Full Gallop.
It is the sort of golden finale that producers South Shore must have been dreaming of.
You can just imagine the scene at the Skelton yard the morning after Mullins went nuclear and picked up £860,000 in a race in which Skelton didn’t even have a runner. Harry shell-shocked; Dan fuming; Nick crunching the numbers; rhetorical questions flying every which way.
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