Betting Bureau: Take Holy Orders to call shots at 20-1.(Sports)

From: The Racing Post (London, England) | Date: June 19, 2001 | Copyright information

Byline: Nick Fox

IRELAND'S champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins has a big chance of collecting his first Royal Ascot prize with his first runner at the big meeting, Holy Orders in the Duke of Edinburgh Handicap (4.20).

After developing into one of the best juvenile hurdlers in Ireland during the spring, Holy Orders showed he is a useful performer on the Flat too when winning a valuable and well-contested mile-and-a-half handicap at The Curragh last month. <...

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