Burning Victory won her first race over jumps since the 2020 Triumph Hurdle when making all the running in the Quevega Mares’ Hurdle at Punchestown.
Willie Mullins’s six-year-old took advantage of Goshen’s final flight mishap at the Cheltenham Festival a couple of years ago but she has struggled over hurdles since then.
She had been over to France a couple of times to win on the Flat and finished second in the Cesarewitch in the interim, but she was cut to 7-1 from 8-1 by Betfair for the Close Brother Mares’ Hurdle next month after this success.
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