Rising star Mulrennan ready to provide inside track to success

With champion jockey Paul Hanagan and title contender Silvestre de Souza both having landed retainers to southern-based yards it is a season of opportunity on the northern circuit.

The Yorkshire Post is delighted that Mulrennan will be bringing a weekly view from the saddle as our latest top sports columnist, starting tomorrow.

Living near Boroughbridge with wife Adele, a professional jockey, and two-year-old daughter Scarlett, Mulrennan is handily placed for the nine racecourses in the county as well as the major training centres.

Even at this early stage of the Flat season, he has ridden seven winners for the likes of Mick Easterby, Michael Dods and James Given and is a regular partner to Kevin Ryan’s horses.

An encouraging 2011 season, including a treble at York in June was cut short by injury but the omens are good for the summer.

He has won a classic in India, a Group Two at Newmarket and the Thirsk Hunt Cup and Zetland Gold Cup.

Proud to have ridden out his claim at York aboard Blue Spinnaker in 2004, he looks forward to bringing Yorkshire Post readers the news from the weighing room as well as some thoughts on his own mounts.

Mulrennan was in winning form on day one of Chester’s prestigious meeting, winning the Stellar Group Handicap in front of the Channel Four cameras on Tim Easterby’s Confessional.