Limini (nearside) beating Sandymount Duke at Punchestown© Photo Healy Racing
Cheltenham Festival favourite Limini could make her eagerly-awaited return to action after featuring among the entries for the Coolmore N.H. Sires Mares Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Saturday.
The five-year-old beat a strong field with something to spare on her only previous start for Willie Mullins at Punchestown last May and while she has been off the track since then, she has been heavily backed for the inaugural running of the Trull House Stud Mares' Novices' Hurdle at Prestbury Park in March.
She is one of 11 potential runners in the Grade Three, with Mullins also responsible for the unbeaten Myska, another leading contender for the same Cheltenham Festival race, and Monbeg Rose.
Other contenders include Gordon Elliott's Navan winner Whistle Dixie Shane Crawley's emphatic Fairyhouse scorer Cashelard Lady and the hat-trick seeking Rosie Alice from Charles Byrnes' stable.
