Willie Mullins is hoping Faugheen can still bid to regain the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown on February 3 - despite being pulled up at the same track over Christmas.
The 10-year-old was the odds-on favourite for the Ryanair Hurdle but was pulled up with two to jump after dropping away tamely, leaving connections mystified.
Mullins and his team conducted a series of tests and report the 2015 Champion Hurdle hero in good form.
The County Carlow trainer said: "We are as happy as can be expected with him. All his tests have come back fine.
"The next step up is to do a little bit of fast work this week and if he passes that test we will be aiming at the BHP Insurance Irish Champion Hurdle.
"We have been minding him and last week we gave him a slow canter.
"We'll move up a gear this week."
The 2015 Champion Hurdle hero is a 3/1 chance in Sky Bet's NRNB market for the championship race on March 13.
Faugheen could be joined in the race by stablemate Melon at Leopardstown on February 3, though the latter was not put through his paces on Monday morning.
"He was unable to work because he lost a shoe and the blacksmith wasn't here to put a shoe back on," said Mullins.
"He's fine and I'd like to run him in the BHP as well."
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