Fletchers Flyer, winner of a bumper at Punchestown last year, is set to return to the Festival for the Irish Daily Mirror Novice Hurdle on April 29.

The Harry Fry-trained seven-year-old scored at Ascot and Wincanton before going down with all guns blazing in a Haydock Grade Two, but was pulled out of the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham.

"Fletchers Flyer is on target to run and obviously won a bumper at Punchestown last year," said Fry .

"He wasn't quite right on the day of the Albert Bartlett when he was due to run at Cheltenham. He seems to have got over that, no problem at all.

"He's a stayer in the making and three miles suits him. The Irish novices' form was very strong at the Cheltenham Festival, stronger than the English horses. It's no easy task but he's got course form so we're looking forward to bringing him over."

The French-bred Qualando has done little wrong since joining Paul Nicholls and after landing the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham, connections are now eyeing Grade One glory in the AES Champion 4YO Hurdle on May 2.

"The plan is to run Qualando. We've kept him for Punchestown and he has done well since his race at Cheltenham. He has kept progressing so we thought we would give him a chance in a Grade One," said Nicholls.

Potential opponents include the Nicky Henderson-trained pair of Top Notch and Hargam, Jim Bolger's Theophilus and Needless Shouting, a nine-length scorer for trainer Mick Channon last week.

Willie Mullins has given brilliant Arkle Trophy scorer Un De Sceaux an entry in the Ryanair Novice Chase on April 30 when he could meet two Grade One winners from Aintree last week - Gordon Elliott's Clarcam and Sizing Granite from Henry de Bromhead's stable.

There is a bumper 34-strong entry for the Tattersalls Ireland Champion Novice Hurdle on May 1 with Mullins' Douvan and Nichols Canyon among the possibles.

The Dermot Weld-trained Windsor Park, winner of the Neptune Investment Novices' Hurdle at Cheltenham and Thistlecrack, a runaway Aintree winner for Colin Tizzard, are also on the list.