2009 Season
Master Minded started the season with an effortless victory in the Tingle Creek Chase at Sandown Park. He was ridden by A P McCoy as Ruby Walsh was injured having had his spleen removed following a fall a fortnight prior. McCoy was massively impressed with the machine he was riding and just was amazed by the horse.
His next run was another easy victory in the Victor Chandler chase at Ascot where Ruby Walsh was back on board. He said that "this horse is not a machine - he is an aeroplane" and Nicholls has come out and said it is the best he had ever trained which is high praise indeed.
With jockey Ruby Walsh at the helm, Master Minded won the 2009 Queen Mother Champion Chase. The win marked consecutive victories for him in the Queen Mother Champion Chase, which he also won in 2008.
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