The Giant Bolster could come to Ireland in a quest to sign off the season with a flourish.

Trainer David Bridgwater will consider running the popular 10-year-old at the Punchestown Festival to atone for having been pulled up in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

The Gloucestershire handler told the Daily Mail: "He is getting a bit long in the tooth and is a bit of an old character. He is a little bit cleverer than we are."

He added: "I thought we had lost him last year and then we put the hood and the visor on and he won the Argento Chase and was third in the Gold Cup. You get an effect (with headgear) but it doesn't always keep working all the time.

"We will give him an entry for Punchestown, which we have never done before.

"That might give him a bit of a spark up travelling over there and being in a different yard for a few days.

"There is no point entering for Aintree because he has always run disastrously there."