Willie Mullins pulls two huge horses out of Cheltenham Festival as he slashes number of runners across races WILLIE MULLINS has pulled two huge names out of Cheltenham Festival altogether - as he slashed his number of runners across several key races.
It means, after the sad news that odds-on fav Sir Gino was also gone from the race with an infected wound, two of the top three in the market are missing, leaving Mullins' Majborough head and shoulders above the rest.
The Closutton boss will not run Brighton supremo Tony Bloom's Ile Atlantique at next month's blockbuster meeting after he was scratched from the Arkle and Brown Advisory Novices' Chase.
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And multiple Grade 1-winning machine Impaire Et Passe won't be on the boat either, after he was cut from the same two races.
