RECORD-BREAKING Willie Mullins horse Jasmin De Vaux is OUT for the season.
The Simon Munir and Isaac Souede-trained six-year-old gelding was as short as 8-1 for the Stayers’ Hurdle.
He won the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle last year before bagging another Grade 1 in the Channor Group Novice Hurdle at Punchestown Festival.
But Mullins told Sporting Life he won’t be running at all this season.
Mullins said of Jasmin De Vaux – who gave him his historic 100th Festival winner last March and also won the Champion Bumper – : “Unfortunately, Jasmin De Vaux will miss the season with a small issue.”
It is the second blow Mullins has suffered with the jumps season just getting going.
He confirmed the other day that dual Gold Cup king Galopin Des Champs had suffered a ‘small setback’.
It looks unlikely he will line up in his intended reappearance in the John Durkan Chase at Punchestown next month.
And he could instead target a new race altogether in the shape of the New Year’s Day Chase at Tramore.
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