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Colin's Sister has Fairyhouse option

The parade ring at FairyhouseThe parade ring at Fairyhouse
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A trip to Fairyhouse could come into the reckoning for Colin's Sister if conditions rule her out of the Cheltenham Festival.

Fergal O'Brien's mare stretched her winning sequence to four in a Grade Two event at Sandown last Friday, and is as low as 8/1 for the Dawn Run Mares' Novices' Hurdle - but O'Brien will not risk her on quicker ground.

He said: "She's come out of Sandown very well. I was very pleased with her performance.

"She beat two very smart mares. Kerry Lee's (Happy Diva) had run well against the boys and Anthony Honeyball's (Ms Parfois) we had a line through another of our horses, so to give them 5lb and beat them nearly 10 lengths was very impressive.

"She'll need it to be soft at Cheltenham, though, I won't risk her, even though we'd love a winner there.

"There are other races for her, she's won a Grade Two so there's a Grade One at Fairyhouse she wouldn't be out of place in."