Rain key for Travino as Mullins focuses on Cheltenham bid

MAGS MULLINS is hoping plenty of rain will fall at Cheltenham to allow her Grade One winner Travino to take his chance at next week’s Festival.

The Co Kilkenny handler has the seven-year-old entered in both the Royal & SunAlliance Novices’ Hurdle and the Brit Insurance Novices’ Hurdle at the meeting, but underfoot conditions will dictate his running plans.

“We are thinking about going across, but only if there is plenty of rain,” said Mullins.