Kalmini set for quick return

Kalmini will bid to get her JCB Triumph Hurdle hopes back on track later this week following a fall at Sandown.

Trainer Sheena West wants the filly to make a quick reappearance before next month’s Cheltenham Festival after ensuring she was none the worse for her fourth-flight exit on Saturday.

“She’s absolutely fine, no problems, but she can’t go to Cheltenham off a fall like that – she’s got to do something else,” West told At The Races.

“She’s in at Huntingdon on Thursday (the Betfred Chatteris Fen Juvenile Novices’ Hurdle) and there’s a novice at Exeter on Sunday, a Listed race, possibly as a back-up.

“We’ll wait and see what the weather is like – you’ve got to cover everything.

“One more run and then the Triumph Hurdle – fingers crossed.”

Kalmini, a 25-1 chance for the four-year-old juvenile championship on March 17, had won her two previous hurdle races at Huntingdon and Taunton.