Patrick Mullins is hoping the Cloustton team are going to click into top gear across the Christmas period.<\/p>\n
By their own very high standards, the yard have been quiet over the last couple of weeks but the assistant trainer told Sporting Life: \u201cI don’t think it’s unusual that we get a bit of a lull before the bigger meetings, but I do think a lot of our younger horses have been a bit behind compared to other years. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a slow November at home, we had a lot of rain and a lot of the older horses that have a couple of years training under their belt seem to have got away with it. The beginners chasers, open horses like Gaelic Warrior, have come out and won.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the bumper horses and the maiden hurdlers have struggled a bit, and I just think it’s down to fitness rather than anything else. I think they’re good and healthy and now we’ve got back to normal through December, I’d be hoping that we’ll be hitting Christmas on the front foot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mullins is hoping the Cloustton team are going to click into top gear across the Christmas period.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-207151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}