Would you run star mare Laurina over hurdles or fences next season?

Laurina extended her unbeaten record for Willie Mullins to four with an impressive Grade 1 success in the mares' hurdle at Fairyhouse on Easter Sunday. But which races should the star mare tackle next season? Our experts give their view . . .

Tom Park, Ante-Post Focus

I would definitely run Laurina over fences next season.

She is a huge scopey mare who, despite Sunday's impressive display over two and a half miles, has bags of speed and I would be aiming her at the Racing Post Arkle if she were mine.

If there has been any weakness in Laurina this season it has been her jumping. She's not a bad jumper – she just doesn't show her hurdles enough respect.

For that reason I don't think she can win a Champion Hurdle but she will have to show her fences more respect and, given the way she is built, I believe she will be even better as a novice.

She is hugely exciting and I wouldn't want to be on anything else in the Arkle market at this stage.

James Hill, RPTipping

I'd love to see her go chasing at some stage, but Laurina is only five and I can't believe connections will be eager to send her over fences so soon.

But whatever happens next term, the clamour for her to take on the boys in top company at some stage could be huge, and rightly so.

Racing does itself no good running a programme of mares' races at Graded level that are rendered uncompetitive by yet another brilliant Mullins mare. It's great that the Closutton master keeps on producing them, but you want to see them competing against the best – not racking up win after win at odds like 2-11.

David Carr, reporter

Call me a hopeless romantic – or an old stick-in-the-mud – but there's only one option for me. Laurina could be the best novice hurdler around, although she's not had the chance to prove the point definitively as she's been campaigned solely against her own sex, so she has to be aimed at the Unibet Champion Hurdle.

She's already shown very smart form and she's not been pressed hard enough to need to show all that she's got yet. It's anyone's guess what she may have in reserve but I suspect it will be enough to give Buveur D'Air and company a hell of a race at Cheltenham next March, given the 7lb mares' allowance and the likelihood that Samcro could be sent over fences.

Her own chasing career can wait. A Champion Hurdle campaign didn't stop Dawn Run landing the Gold Cup two years later, did it? Or is that just me being romantic again?

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