Hurricane Fly is out of the Cheltenham Festival after failing to recover from a bone splint. Willie Mullins, who trains the exciting five-year-old, had no option but to draw stumps on the preparation of a horse which would almost certainly have started favourite for his selected target.
Mullins is now aiming him for the Punchestown Festival in April. “We hoped he would have made more progress this week,” the trainer said. “He hasn’t, and we basically ran out of time to prepare him for Cheltenham. It’s disappointing, but the main thing is that he should be fine longer-term.”
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