SHE'S Our Daisy - a winner on fast ground in the autumn at Wincanton and Taunton - will find conditions far different on Tuesday in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle, the traditional Cheltenham Festival curtain raiser.

However, trainer Bob Buckler from Melplash near Bridport thinks the mare deserves her chance.

"It wouldn't be her kind of race but she won her two clocking impressive times and it will be very interesting to see how she copes.

"She did have a tendency to jump right but we seem to have sorted that out, she will be fresh after a three-month break and obviously others reckon she has possibilities as she has been backed down to 20-1."

Buckler, who showed that his string were in good nick when Alfa Sunrise won at Folkestone last week, runs The Sawyer in the EBF Novices' Hurdle final at Sandown Park on Saturday.

But he will also leave the horse in the Brit Insurance Novices' Hurdle next Friday, the last day of the Festival, along with Double Dizzy.

One Buckler charge bypassing Cheltenham is his recent Ascot winner Warlord, described by the trainer as "the most exciting horse I have had in the yard".

Buckler explained: "He is a big, gangly baby who would be too immature for Cheltenham at this stage of his career."

Warlord could reappear at Wincanton on March 19.