"Faugheen and Annie Power are both riding away and are of similar fitness," Mullins Jnr told the Irish Independent."Hopefully Faugheen can start to sparkle in his work and we can get him back to the track. Neither he nor Annie has sparked and Dad is taking a patient approach.
"We'd have liked to have Faugheen out earlier but we've not been happy with the way he has sparked: he hasn't in the way we'd have liked. It's nothing serious and he's riding away but we're very much erring on the side of caution, with March the main aim.
"He had a bit of a suspensory ligament last year, which is quite a common injury. He seems fine from that.
"Annie Power only had one run before Cheltenham last year. If we're not 100pc happy at the end of the month with either, we will wait some more."