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Quevega Likely to Aim for Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle
18/04/11

Although the brilliant mare Quevega is entered in the Rabobank Champion Hurdle, trainer Willie Mullins has revealed that she is more likely to bid for a second consecutive victory in the Grade 1 Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle over three miles on Thursday, May 5.

Quevega
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Quevega

Quevega slammed her rivals to take the 160,000 euros Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle in 2010 and is fresh from an historic third consecutive win in the Grade 2 David Nicholson Mares’ Hurdle over two mile and five furlongs at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

Mullins reported: “Quevega will be going for the three-mile hurdle, I think. I worried whether we had got her straight enough for Cheltenham but I think maybe it actually suits her better to be like that because she was very impressive. I am quite pleased with her and how she has come out of Cheltenham.”

Another among the 20 Ladbrokes World Hurdle entries is Quevega’s stablemate Thousand Stars, who is also engaged in the Rabobank Champion Hurdle, and Mullins has yet to finalise a target for the seven-year-old following his close second to Oscar Whisky in the two and a half-mile Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle nine days ago.

He said: “At the moment, Thousand Stars seems to be in good form after Aintree. We won’t make a decision up until the day, which way we go with him.”

Mullins has six entries in the race, the others being Grade 1 Ladbrokes World Hurdle third Mourad, last year’s Grade 1 Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle victor Blackstairmountain, 2009 Grade 1 Cathal Ryan Memorial Champion Novice Hurdle hero Mikael D’Haguenet and the progressive Sir Des Champs, victorious in the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys’ Handicap Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.

The trainer said of the last-named: “We’re yet to decide what to do with Sir Des Champs. All I know is that I have only run him three times and he has won three times, so I don’t know how good he is. We might decide to find out or we might put him out to grass. I have a few entries for him and could run him in a handicap, so we’ll see.”

Others engaged in the Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle include the Gordon Elliott-trained Coral Cup winner Carlito Brigante and the Sabrina Harty-trained Won In The Dark, fourth and third respectively behind Big Buck’s in the Grade 1 Liverpool Hurdle at Aintree last time.

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