LUKE Littler has spoken of his growing interest in horse racing on the back of his first involvement in ownership.
It comes after Warrington’s world darts champion teamed up with a fellow darts star and footballing icon to venture into the sport.
The Nuke, a former Padgate Academy pupil, has joined forces with St Helens’ Stephen ‘The Bullet’ Bunting and former England striker Michael Owen to buy an Ardad colt in training with Hugo Palmer.
Given that the name of the horse is Bunting Mental, Littler said that, should the venture go well, the next horse will carry a name relevant to him.
“Leading up to Cheltenham, I was right into the horse racing,” he said.
“Even last year at the Aintree Grand National, me and Faith (his girlfriend) both backed Nick Rockett (winning horse), which I think was like 33-1.
“That was the proper race to watch, but then going to Cheltenham this year was very good.
“It was at the start of the year when we were in Saudi, I think Michael Owen messaged Bunting and said ‘do you want to get involved?’.
“I went ‘yeah’, it’s worth a punt, worth a bit of money.
“I let Bunting have the name this time and, hopefully, this one does well, and we can get another one with my name.”
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