French import Easysland will make his debut for Jonjo O'Neill at Sandown on Saturday before heading to the Glenfarclas Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. A Grand National tilt has not been ruled out either.
The eight-year-old, previously trained in France by David Cottin, became a cross-country specialist when winning a string of races over the channel, before making a successful first visit to Cheltenham in December 2019.
The following March he returned to the Cotswolds to win the cross-country event at the Festival, inflicting a 17-length defeat on dual Grand National winner Tiger Roll.
Tiger Roll got his revenge, however, last year at the Festival, claiming an 18-length success over Easysland in what was the French horse's most recent run.
An O'Neill debut is pencilled in Sandown at the weekend, with the gelding holding entries for both the Virgin Bet Masters Handicap Chase and the Virgin Bet Heroes Handicap Hurdle.
"Jonjo will make up his mind a bit nearer the time, but the plan is to run him in one of the races on Saturday," said Frank Berry, racing manager to owner JP McManus.

Connections of Easysland are open minded abot tacking the big one in the Grand National at Aintree in the spring.

Berry added: "We'll get through Saturday's race first and then hopefully he'll be good to go to Cheltenham for the cross country.
"Jonjo is quite happy with him so we hope he'll run a good race on Saturday and go on from there.
"The cross country is his main objective, we'll see how we get on with that before the National afterwards."

The Gentlewave gelding has been rested since March 2021 due to injury setbacks but has recovered and regained fitness in the swimming pool at O'Neill's Cotswolds stable.

"He has been here for about a month now and in that time he has done a fair bit of swimming," the trainer said.
"He seems grand at the moment but it is a case of keeping the wheels on as he has been off the track since Cheltenham last year as he has had a few issues.
"If he comes out of this Saturday well, I'd imagine that the cross country at Cheltenham will be his goal. Whether he goes to the Grand National I don't know, but he has the entry."