| In this article I'm going to take a look at the Irish | | | | 23.07%, P/L +14.09 |
| champion trainer Willie Mullins and his record in races | | | | His overall race record reads like this: |
| at Punchestown. Punchestown stages some of the | | | | Runners - 129, Winners - 34, Strike Rate 36.35% |
| finest jump racing, not just in Ireland but in the world | | | | So we can see that Willie Mullins has a very solid |
| because, simply put, it is the place where the | | | | strike rate at Punchestown, with an average of over |
| champions of jump racing meet. Racing at the course | | | | 1 in every 3 horses winning at odds of 14/1 or |
| is always about quality and the Autumn and Winter | | | | shorter. That's a pretty good return by anyone's |
| seasons there include many excellent fixtures, the | | | | standards! And the Profit margin? Putting a 1 |
| highlight being the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial | | | | stake on all 129 horses would have yielded a Level |
| Chase in December. Mullins is the best trainer in | | | | Stakes Profit of 37.20... |
| Ireland and so gets quite a few winners at the | | | | But if we take it a step further and eliminate the |
| festival, including this year so far but is he profitable | | | | type of races where the trainer shows a loss |
| over the season? Let's take a look. | | | | (namely all hurdle races bar hcap hurdles), the |
| If we take the parameter of excluding all horses | | | | numbers look as follow... |
| priced 16/1 and above we arrive with these numbers | | | | Runners - 73, Winners - 21, Strike Rate 27.77% |
| over the past 2 seasons... | | | | We have less winners but from much less runners |
| Novice & Maiden hurdle: Runners - 32, Winners - 8, | | | | and the Strike Rate dropped almost 10%. However, |
| Strike Rate 25%, Profit or Loss (P/L) -15.41 | | | | the LSP rose to an excellent 53.16 for 1 |
| Hurdles: Runners - 20, Winners - 5, Strike Rate 25%, | | | | stakes. |
| P/L -0.55 | | | | So in summary, by sticking to chases and hcap |
| Hcap Hurdles: Runners - 22, Winners - 5, Strike rate | | | | hurdles and all horses priced 14/1 or shorter we can |
| 22.72%, P/L +7.07 | | | | make an excellent profit through Willie Mullins horses |
| Novice & Beginners Chases: Runners 7, Winners - 4, | | | | at Punchestown throughout the season. Alot of his |
| Strike Rate 57.17%, P/L + 11.50 | | | | horses are aimed at the Punchestown Festival in April |
| Chases: Runners - 4, Winners - 0, Strike Rate 0%, P | | | | and so it's inevitable that he finds quite a few |
| L -4.0 | | | | winners there, year in year out. |
| Hcap Chases: Runners - 18, Winners - 6, Strike rate | | | | He is also prifitable at some other tracks but that's |
| 33.33%, P/L +24.5 | | | | for another article!!! |
| Bumpers: Runners - 26, Winners - 6, Strike Rate | | | | |