Baby Mix will bid to cement his JCB Triumph Hurdle claims on Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham on January 28.
The juvenile will go for the Grade Two JCB Triumph Hurdle Trial, an event which has been a good guide to the Festival race in the past, with recent winners Katchit (2007), Franchoek (2008) and Walkon (2009), all going on to win or be placed in the Triumph.
Gloucestershire trainer Tom George has been delighted with Baby Mix since the four-year-old's facile victory on his British debut over the course and distance last month.
George said: "I've been very happy with him, he does his work very easily, and he is where we want him really. He had a run over hurdles in France, plenty of Flat racing too, so experience is on his side and, touch wood, he wouldn't need any more practice really.
"Our plan is to run him at Cheltenham on January 28 in the trial there, and then go straight to the JCB Triumph Hurdle - he goes well fresh, which he showed last time.
"He is a very quick horse, and he is a very good-moving horse, so I can't help but feel the better ground will suit him more, but he is obviously versatile enough as he has won on the soft before anyway."
Baby Mix is the 7-1 favourite with Sky Bet for the Triumph Hurdle.
