Forcing tactics will be used once more on Cue Card when he bids to regain the Ryanair Chase at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
Connections have now decided to come back in distance after he seemingly failed to see out the three-mile trip of the King George on St Stephens’s Day.
Having recovered from the injury he suffered at Kempton, Cue Card is now back in work.
Joe Tizzard, assistant trainer to his father, Colin, feels his best chance of winning the Ryanair once again is to ride him from the front.
He told At The Races: "We haven't even entered him in the Gold Cup, he's only entered in the Ryanair and he'll go straight there.
"He had a really nasty over-reach after the King George and we only started cantering him again 10 days ago.
"If it had been a couple of centimetres higher it could have been really nasty.
"We think he could have done it on the first circuit when he made a mistake so it is bound to have affected him.
"Turning in, he had every chance but didn't quite get there, so we'll go back to the Ryanair, which he won two years ago.
"Instead of holding on to him, we'll go back to how we used to ride him - let him go, use his jumping and be positive on him."
