War Of Attrition will go straight to the totesport.com Cheltenham Gold Cup without another run after his distant second to Exotic Dancer in the Lexus Chase.
Trainer Mouse Morris plans to follow the same path with the 10-year-old when he won jump racing's blue riband prize in 2006.
That season he finished second to Beef Or Salmon in the Leopardstown feature on his previous start.
‘I thought he ran adequately in the Lexus,’ Morris told At The Races.
‘We wont change our plans, there's nowhere else to go.
‘We'll go straight to the Gold Cup, hopefully if he's sound on the day.
‘That's what we did the year he won it so we won't change it.’
