‘We’re full of hope’ says Dan Skelton – but title rival Willie Mullins means business in an epic Tingle Creek tussle
Skelton v Mullins: you sense it could become our staple Saturday diet through the winter. Like the way TransWorld Sport, The Morning Line and Gazzetta Football Italia used to be back in the 1990s.
We got a taster for it last weekend, although it left a rather sour taste in our mouths as The New Lion crashed out and Anzadam couldn’t gobble up the scraps he left behind up at Newcastle. But the Betfair Tingle Creek will surely serve up something spicy. It usually does.
We return to the scene of the crime, where Dan Skelton had a first trainer’s title stolen from his back pocket in broad daylight last April.
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Published on 5 December 2025inThe Big Story
Last updated 18:41, 5 December 2025
