{"id":46968,"date":"2025-04-24T09:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=46968"},"modified":"2025-04-24T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T09:35:32","slug":"willie-mullins-bet-365-gold-cup-runners-sandown-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/willie-mullins-bet-365-gold-cup-runners-sandown-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Mullins Will Run TEN In Saturday’s bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a total purse of just over \u00a3170k, this Saturday’s bet365 Gold Cup looks set to be a pivotal race in the 2025 jumps trainers’ title race – which is why Willie Mullins has a stack of entries for the big Sandown Park race, that he also won 12 months ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With that in mind – we look at his main bet365 Gold Cup runners for 2025 – as it’s now been confirmed that Willie Mullins has declared TEN<\/strong> (of the 20 runners)<\/em> at the final declaration stage.<\/p>\n

If Mullins can pull off another 1-2-3, like he did in the Aintree Grand National, he’d pocket a monster \u00a3154,140.<\/strong><\/p>\n

High Class Hero The Shortest-Priced bet365 Gold Cup Willie Mullins Runner<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The recent Irish Grand National had been the expected target for High Class Hero<\/strong>, but this unexposed 8 year-old chaser came out of the race late on – with connections and Willie Mullins seemingly preferring a tilt at Saturday’s bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown.<\/p>\n

Could this be a significant switch? The layers seem to think so.<\/p>\n

High Class Hero will head to Sandown as one of the shortest-priced Mullins runners in the race with the best horse racing betting sites in the UK and it’s not hard to see why.<\/p>\n

He’s won four of his six starts over fences and there could be more to come now upped in trip beyond three miles for the first time.<\/p>\n

The horse was a tidy winner at Punchestown back in February – seeing off his stablemate Loughglynn. However, those looking to take on High Class Hero will look to his most recent run – when beaten at long odds-on (2\/13) at Thurles in the middle of March.<\/p>\n

Mullins’ nearest rival in the jumps trainers’ title race<\/a>, Dan Skelton has just one entry – Hoe Joly Smoke<\/strong> – with the bet365 Gold Cup prize money<\/a> for the winner standing at \u00a398k.<\/p>\n

WATCH: High Class Hero Winning Over Hurdles at Thurles in January 2024<\/strong><\/h3>\n