More Of That is set to head straight to the Cheltenham Festival after he was ruled out of an intended appearance at Newbury on Saturday.
Jonjo O'Neill's 2014 World Hurdle hero is two from two over fences since returning from injury, winning at Cheltenham in November and December.
He has missed a number of potential engagements since then on account of testing conditions and with the ground at Newbury not expected to dry out sufficiently ahead of the Better Odds With Betfair Novices' Chase, connections have drawn stumps once more.
Frank Berry, racing manager to owner JP McManus, said: " He won't be running on Saturday because of the ground.
"We were hoping it would dry up a bit, but it's still soft, heavy in places on the chase track.
"He's in great form and Jonjo is very happy with him.
"We were hoping it might dry out to being soft, but when it's still heavy, we don't want to run.
"We'd have loved to get another run into him, but Jonjo isn't overly worried if he can't, and it looks like he'll probably go straight to Cheltenham now.
"We know he has a preference for nice ground."
More Of That is a best-priced 9-2 second favourite for the RSA Chase at the Festival, behind the Gordon Elliott-trained No More Heroes.