The six-year-old landed the Grade Two contest in devastating fashion once again last season before beating the boys over three miles at Punchestown.
There have been plenty of calls for Quevega to test her mettle in either the Champion Hurdle or the World Hurdle at Cheltenham next year, but Mullins remains keen on keeping her against her own sex.
“She’s just been in a couple of days and has done well from her summer break. If all goes well and she gets back to Cheltenham, you’d have to think at this stage of the year she’d be aiming for the mares’ race.
“It’s so far away but we’d definitely be aiming for Cheltenham and I don’t think she’ll have too many runs before that. We’ll see how she takes her training.”
Quevega is currently evens with Paddy Power and 5/4 with Stan James for the 2011 Mares Hurdle.
Quevega was victorious for a second year running in the Mares' Hurdle
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