{"id":308843,"date":"2026-02-20T23:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308843\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:45:13","slug":"patrick-mullins-on-the-four-closutton-runners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/308843\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Mullins on the four Closutton runners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mullins admits he isn&#8217;t convinced Paul Townend has picked the right one from the yard&#8217;s four runners in the BAR 1 Betting Bobbyjo Chase at Fairyhouse on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Closutton team have regularly used it as a springboard to the Randox Grand National for their leading Aintree hopes and this time Townend has opted to partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/racing\/profiles\/horse\/1022577\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grangeclare West<\/a> from their four runners this time around.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I suppose he has the strongest form. He&#8217;s been placed in Irish Gold Cups, the Savills, ran really well in the Aintree National last season,&#8221; the assistant trainer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick Mullins admits he isn&#8217;t convinced Paul Townend has picked the right one from the yard&#8217;s four runners&hellip;\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":{"0":"post-308843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308843","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=308843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308843\/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=308843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}