Paul Nicholls: I would dearly love, more than anything else, to train another Gold Cup winner

London Evening Standard

Paul Nicholls is aware Cheltenham could decide whether he claims his 10th champion jump trainers’ title.

Nicholls’s winnings of £1.64million this season leave him £466,000 ahead of his nearest rival, Philip Hobbs, but the man the Somerset trainer fears most is Willie Mullins.

The Irishman has never won the title and is 17th in the table, £1.2m adrift of the leader.

However, there is £4.1m on offer at this week’s Festival and Nicholls is sure a significant slice of that will be heading to Mullins, who claimed a record eight wins last year to be crowned Cheltenham champion trainer.