{"id":14490,"date":"2024-10-23T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:19:19","slug":"willie-mullins-flies-to-australia-to-see-his-melbourne-cup-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/willie-mullins-flies-to-australia-to-see-his-melbourne-cup-runners\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Mullins Flies To Australia To See How His Melbourne Cup Runners Are Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Irish trainer Willie Mullins has flown to Australia to check up on his two Melbourne Cup runners Vauban and Absurde &#8211; but only stayed for 24 hours before returning back to Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jet Set Willie: Mullins Checks In On His Melbourne Cup Runners Down Under<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It takes over 24 hours to fly from Ireland to Australia &#8211; with a distance of 26,399km &#8211; but that&#8217;s exactly what champion trainer <strong>Willie Mullins<\/strong> did this week as he checked in on his two big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/melbourne-cup-runners-2024-jan-brueghel-and-illinois\/\">Melbourne Cup runners<\/a> <strong>Vauban <\/strong>and<strong> Absurde<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mullins, who could have some runners at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/willie-mullins-cheltenham-runners-at-the-showcase-meeting\/\">Cheltenham Showcase Meeting<\/a> this Friday and Saturday was, however, only on foot Down Under for less than a day himself &#8211; before jetting back to Ireland in time for his weekend entries.<\/p>\n<p>On talking to Racing.com (watch below), Willie Mullins, who joined David Cassey in Australia, reports <strong>Absurde<\/strong> to be more grown up this time, than his Melbourne Cup tilt in 2023, when his former Ebor winner finished a fair 7th (of 23).<\/p>\n<p>Absurde was also only beaten 5 1\/2 lengths behind the 2023 Melbourne Cup winner Without A Fight and gets in with just a pound more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/melbourne-cup-weights-2024-for-flemington-park-race\/\">weight<\/a> this time &#8211; he&#8217;s set to carry (8st 4lbs, 52.5kg).<\/p>\n<p>Mullins added <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m much happier with him (Absurde) this year and he seems more mature. He just seems to have grown-up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><strong>WATCH: Willie Mullins Talking About His 2024 Melbourne Cup Runners Absurde and Vauban<\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I&#39;m much happier with him (Absurde) this year.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Champion trainer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillieMullinsNH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WillieMullinsNH<\/a> has arrived in Australia to keep a close eye on his Melbourne Cup runners, Vauban &amp; Absurde \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jx3NFkDs8f\">pic.twitter.com\/Jx3NFkDs8f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Racing.com (@Racing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Racing\/status\/1848915650795684180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>When Is The Melbourne Cup 2024?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\udcc5Date: Tuesday 5th November 2024<br \/>\n<span class=\"JCzEY tNxQIb\"><span class=\"CSkcDe\">\u231aTime: 4:00am (GMT)<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\ud83c\udfc7Racecourse: Flemington (2m)<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcb0Winning Purse: <span class=\"NA6bn BxUVEf ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">\u00a3<\/span><\/span>2,485,875<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa TV: Sky Sports Racing<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Vauban Reported To Be Fitter Than 12 Months Ago<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/willie-mullins-melbourne-cup-runners-2024\/\">Willie Mullins Melbourne Cup runner<\/a> will be <strong>Vauban<\/strong> &#8211; who also ran in last year&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>But despite being sent off as favourite could only manage 14th under top jockey Ryan Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Vauban will also carry a pound more than 12 months ago &#8211; with (8st 10lbs, 55.5kg) &#8211; with Mullins reporting the Rich Ricci-owned horse to be much fitter this year, than last.<\/p>\n<p>Having raced him more through the summer with the idea of just having to freshening him up before the race as a result of that busier campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Mullins also said that <em>&#8220;it&#8217;s not part of the plan&#8221;<\/em> for Vauban or Absurde to take in a racecourse gallop at Flemington Park, the home of the Melbourne Cup, before the race on November 5th.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/betting-sites\/horse-racing\/\">best horse racing betting sites in the UK<\/a> make both Vauban and Absurde the general second favourite in the market, behind the St Leger winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/jan-brueghel-books-melbourne-cup-ticket-aidan-obrien\/\">Jan Brueghel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been support for another European runner Onesmoothoperator after his easy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/geelong-cup-result-sees-onesmoothoperator-win\/\">Geelong Cup<\/a> win on 23rd October for trainer Brian Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>Twilight Payment in 2020, for trainer Joseph O&#8217;Brien, was the last Irish-trained Melbourne Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>While Willie Mullins went close in 2017 when his Max Dynamite was third behind another O&#8217;Brien winner in the race &#8211; Rekindling.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Watch the 2023 Melbourne Cup Below<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"The 2023 Lexus Melbourne Cup - Full Replay\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrFXdzcS7os?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Irish trainer Willie Mullins has flown to Australia to check up on his two Melbourne Cup runners Vauban and Absurde &#8211; but only stayed for 24 hours before returning back to Ireland. Jet Set Willie: Mullins Checks In On His Melbourne Cup Runners Down Under It takes over 24 hours to fly from Ireland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":5034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horse-racing"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willie Mullins Flies To Australia To See His Melbourne Cup Runners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Irish trainer Willie Mullins has made a flying visit to Australia to check-up on his 2024 Melbourne Cup runners Vauban &amp; Absurde.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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