John Quinn is eyeing up a return to the Flat with Triumph Hurdle winner Countrywide Flame before the end of the current campaign.
The four-year-old ran out a determined winner of the juvenile championship at the Cheltenham Festival and proved that to be no fluke by running a close second to Grumeti at Aintree last month.
The son of Haafhd also has four wins on the level to his credit and dual-purpose trainer Quinn hopes to return him to the Flat game before gearing him up for one of the major Champion Hurdle trials in the autumn.
"Countrywide Flame is fine and he's having a little holiday now," said Quinn.
"The plan is to bring him back and run him on the Flat in the second half of the season if all goes well.
"After that, we'll get him ready to go back over hurdles and he'll probably start off in either the Fighting Fifth at Newcastle or the Bula (International Hurdle) at Cheltenham.
"He'll run in one of those and we can make a plan from there."
