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The well-related Maughreen will not race at the Cheltenham Festival, after suffering a setback.

Out of a half-sister to Faugheen, the Willie Mullins-trained mare made a successful start to her career when winning at Punchestown in January. She travelled strongly throughout the race and easily kicked clear up the run-in to take the contest by eleven lengths, earning positive quotes for the Champion Bumper at the Festival. 

"The team at Willie's just copped that she wasn't moving correctly after a piece of work during the week, we've done a bit of investigating to see what was going on and we caught something very small," said James Fenton, racing manager for the owners.

"She's by no means in any danger or anything like that, it's an injury that I would take every day of the week. It's very minor and the prognosis for it is described as excellent.

"She was going to Cheltenham, that was the plan. I discussed it on Monday night with Willie and a lot of the members had their plane tickets booked and everything, but they're very understanding as that's the game we're in."