Friday 14th March

The Festival’s most successful trainer Willie Mullins equalled his own record of saddling 10 winners at the meeting in 2025 (he previously achieved the feat in 2022).

Mullins has now saddled a record 113 Festival winners and today collected the Leading Trainer Award for a 12th time.

He said at the end of Gold Cup Day: “It has been a fantastic week. Anytime you have a winner at Cheltenham it is good, but to have more than one is brilliant.

“We have been very lucky this week, so we are not complaining, as you don’t ever expect to have that many winners here.

"For the last two weeks I was wishing the Festival was on the week before as the whole team was just so well in themselves.

“I was hoping they weren’t over the top by the time that we came here. We have probably never done as little work in the final week before Cheltenham.

"They were just really well in themselves and we were waiting there for something to go wrong.

“Most times you come into the Festival you wish you had another week to prepare your horses, but this year it just fell into place very well.

“We have had four fantastic days here, and there were a couple of disappointments, but all the horses and jockeys have gone home safe and sound and will live to fight another day.

“I always treat every owner the same. If a man who has a horse on a budget that is as good as, or better than the other horse, our stable jockey rides it.

“A lot of our success is how we treat everyone the same. If a smaller man has a good horse we will treat as good as the biggest owners in the yard. Everyone gets a fair shot.

“I thought Kopek De Mee in the Supreme and Fact To File in the Ryanair were two brilliant winners.

“The obvious disappointments were State Man and Galopin Des Champs, but everywhere in between was where we are at.

“It surprises me how we keep raising the bar. We are gobsmacked with the owners we have and the horses we have. We pinch ourselves every evening when you check all the horses.

“Paul took over from Ruby and it has worked seamlessly. He has a different style of riding to Ruby, but he is getting huge success.

“I’m so delighted that he has won the leading rider award here this week as he is a huge part of our team.”