Mullins seeks another King George Willie Mullins calls upon Vautour and Valseur Lido to give him a second William Hill King George VI Chase success on Saturday. Despite Mullins' huge domination at Cheltenham in recent years, he has only won Kempton's Christmas highlight once, when Florida Pearl scored way back in 2001. Vautour will be racing over three miles for the first time and on his winning return at Ascot, was nowhere near as impressive as he had been at Cheltenham in the JLT Novices' Chase, jumping left into the bargain. One doubt Mullins has is that Vautour's two least impressive performances have come at this time of year. "I'd be hoping he'll stay. He won the JLT last year and the way he came up the hill there didn't look to be any stamina issue," said Mullins. "He was so impressive at Cheltenham, like he was the year before there. "Whether we can get it out of him at Christmas (I don't know), but I don't want it out of him until March, it's just the way we train our horses for that peak in March, not Christmas. "I'd love to win the King George and hopefully he's good enough, but it seems to be the way we train, we've never won a Lexus yet we can turn the Lexus form around in February and March as we win the Hennessy (in Leopardstown). "It will be interesting to see, will he jump right this time? He was jumping a little left (at Ascot) and that has to be a concern, especially going round a track like Kempton. "Kempton will be a different race, hopefully there's going to be a different horse making the running and hopefully he'll jump straight and we'll follow him." Valseur Lido is a big price but is a Grade One winner over three miles as a novice. He chased home Djakadam on his reappearance in the John Durkan at Punchestown. "It looks like three miles around there will really suit him. I see he'd be one of the outsiders, but he'd be no 33-1 shot," said Mullins.
