Having dominated National Hunt racing for two decades, Willie Mullins has diversified to target some of the Flat’s biggest staying prizes in recent seasons and Love Me Tender (3.35), a lightly raced four-year-old, can give the stable a third win in the last four runnings of the Ebor Handicap as York’s festival meeting concludes on Saturday.
Like Absurde, the 2023 winner, and Ethical Diamond, who took the Ebor 12 months ago and went on to land the Breeders’ Cup Turf, Love Me Tender will run in the pink and white silks of the HOS syndicate, but he has yet to carry the colours in public, having been recruited to the Mullins stable after three runs for Peter Schiergen in 2025.
