Limestone Lad will warm up for Cheltenham with a run at Navan on Sunday.
Ireland's main hope for the Bonusprint Stayers' Hurdle, particularly with old rival Le Coudray sidelined, will tackle the Boyne Hurdle.
He will be having 11th race of the season but Phyllis Bowe, wife of owner/trainer James Bowe, said today: "Limestone Lad runs on Sunday in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan and after that we intend to go to Cheltenham.
"With all this rain around it looks as though Limestone Lad's chances of running a big race are increasing every day. We will only stay at home if the ground is going to be fast."
Limestone Lad is the only horse to beat Istabraq in the past two seasons, having got the better of the dual champion hurdler at Fairyhouse last November.
He finished only fourth behind the same horse in the AIG Europe Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown last month but bounced back to land his eighth win of the campaign in a conditions event at Naas last time out.
The eight-year-old is quoted at 4-1 for the Stayers' Hurdle by William Hurdle.
