Multiple Champion Trainer Willie Mullins may have turned 70 years old recently, but his desire to keep training winners is still as strong as it ever was.
A former six time amateur champion in Ireland, his personal greatest riding moments were winning the 1983 Aintree Foxhunters on Atha Cliath and the 1996 Cheltenham Champion Bumper on Wither or Which.
As a trainer Willie has won just about every major prize in Ireland, most of the big ones in the UK and several in France as well for good measure. Annually you will always find his horses quoted in the Grand National betting.
Willie has been the Champion NH trainer in Ireland for the last eighteen years and he has won the title nineteen times in total, as well as winning the British trainers championship in each of the last two years. This has contributed greatly to Willie Mullins net worth estimates.
He is undoubtedly the dominant force in jumps racing right now and here are five of his horses to follow in the forthcoming 2026/27 season:
INTERSTELLAR
Unbeaten in two starts over hurdles in France, including a victory in the Prix de Aladdin, Interstellar was bought privately to race in the famous silks of Rich Ricci.
Sired by Telecaster, who was a high-class flat performer that won the Grade 2 Dante Stakes and the Group 2 Grand Prix de Deauville, he should inherit plenty of tactical speed.
He has been touted as an exciting prospect for a race like the Triumph Hurdle with a long-term future in chasing. Observers note that while he has the speed to contest juvenile hurdles, he also possesses the physical size and scope of a horse built for chasing.
KAWABOOMGA
This highly regarded French recruit is owned by JP McManus, with connections this season mapping him out for a top-class campaign with the primary long-term focus being on novice chasing.
After a late-season setback forced him to miss the 2025 Cheltenham Festival, he returned to action in 2026, culminating in a step up to Grade 1 company when finishing fifth in the Champion Stayers Hurdle at Punchestown.
Long-term targets like the Brown Advisory Novices' Chase at the Cheltenham Festival are highly likely to be on his radar this season.
MAGNIFICO CONTI
Purchased by Mullins to run for the Ricci’s, Magnifico Conti made a winning debut for Noel George and Amanda Zetterholm in the Prix Rohan at Auteuil back in February.
The decision to buy a once raced hurdler would suggest that they think he could be top class horse.
Given that Magnifico Conti will not be eligible for standard novice hurdle divisions in the UK and Ireland this season, he is expected to be campaigned in conditions hurdles and open Graded company when we finally see him run under the Closutton banner.
SORTUDO
Sortudo will be targeted this season at intermediate and staying novice chases over distances of 2m4f to 3m, with a clear long-term view toward the premier staying novice chases at the Festivals.
The son of Authorized met a rare setback when finishing down the field in the Grade 1 Turners Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, but he will now have a change of focus going forward from there.
WITCHES FAMILIAR
Unbeaten in both of her starts over hurdles since transferring to Ireland, Witches Familiar hails from a highly prestigious National Hunt family, as her dam is a half-sister to the legendary four-time World Hurdle champion, Big Buck's.
In July she absolutely dominated the Galmont Hotel & Galway Bay Hotel Novice Hurdle, drawing clear to win by eight and a half lengths, and she will probably be aimed at the Mares’ Hurdle at Cheltenham in March.
