Racing:Progressive youngster Kazal is more likely to run at Thurles on Thursday than at the Cheltenham Festival the following week.
The six-year-old will bid for a five-timer wherever he lines up, having maintained his winning run with a gutsy success at Naas towards the end of February.
Handler Eoin Griffin has yet to rule out the Brit Insurance Novices' Hurdle entirely, however, with underfoot conditions likely to play to his strengths at Prestbury Park.
"The three-mile race is what we'd have in mind for him if we went over there," he explained.
"Cheltenham isn't the be-all and end-all. It's lovely to have a runner over there of his calibre and he would have a very good chance if he does go.
"The ground will probably be soft there and it's quite unusual for them to have that at Cheltenham and that's the only factor really why we are still hanging on.
"We'll leave a decision until later in the week but we're leaning towards the Thurles race (the Grade Two Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle).
"It's a very valuable pot and it'd be a lot less travelling and there'd be a lot of very good horses in the Brit Insurance."
Although Griffin believes his charge would go to Cheltenham with a decent chance, he feels Kazal has had a fairly taxing season for one so young — and that will play a part in his decision.
"At the start of the season I said I'd give him an easy season and in that regard he's made a liar of me!" he said.
"He seems to thrive on racing but I still have in the back of my mind that he's won his last four races and he's had hard enough a season.
"In some of his victories he's been in a battle, especially his last two, so I'm just mindful of the fact that I don't want to go to the well once too often."