‘We’ll be doing our best and will never give up’ – Nicholls relishing title battle
Reigning champion locked in three-way tussle with Willie Mullins and Dan Skelton.
Paul Nicholls insists he will not give up his trainers’ title without a fight ahead of what promises to be a pivotal Scottish Grand National meeting at Ayr this weekend. After claiming his second victory in the Randox Grand National at Aintree on Saturday with I Am Maximus, Willie Mullins is now odds-on with bookmakers to become the first Irish-based trainer to claim the British championship since Vincent O’Brien did so in successive years in the 1950s. The Closutton maestro currently leads the way by just under GBP 53,000 from Dan Skelton, with Nicholls a further GBP 75,000 behind in third.“We’re looking forward to it, as you can imagine we’ll be doing our best and will never give up,” the Ditcheat handler told Betfair. “We’ve been there before, eight years ago going into the last two weeks of the season I think we were GBP 180,000 behind Willie and we were 8-1 against to win. “We had a great time, Sandown was a brilliant day for us and we won the Scottish National with Vicente, so we need some luck like that again and need to win some big races.”
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