Trainer Keith Reveley will look at the big staying hurdles in the winter but is keen to get the six-year-old out in the two-and-a-quarter-mile affair, where Tom Eaves has been booked.

Cleveland-based Reveley explained: "I had always planned to give him a couple of runs on the Flat and, all being well, he should run at Pontefract.

"I had him entered in a mile-and-a-quarter race at Nottingham but didn't want to run him over that kind of distance.

"I don’t expect him to win the race at Pontefract but I definitely feel he'll get the trip.

"He has done very well over the summer and he's going to have to go for the top-class races when he goes back jumping.

"I think something like the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot would be a starting point after the Flat runs."

Reveley's other good jumper Ungaro is reported to be nearly ready for a run but no targets have been selected yet.