Evan Williams considers Haydock option for De Dollar Man and Report To Base

Evan Williams could run both De Dollar Man and Report To Base in the Grade Two Albert Bartlett Prestige Novices' Hurdle at Haydock on Saturday as he looks ahead to potential bigger targets in the spring.De Dollar Man could be an exciting prospect judged on his wins in a bumper and a novice hurdle since joining the Williams team from Ireland.The six-year-old also holds an entry in the Neptune Investment Management Novices' Hurdle at Ascot on Saturday, but is more likely to run on Merseyside.Report To Base, who was runner-up to Coo Star Sivola in a decent race at Cheltenham on New Year's Day, could join him."I'd say De Dollar Man will definitely go to Haydock and I wouldn't be against running both of them in that race."Report To Base ran a very good race in defeat last time at Cheltenham in a Listed novice."I might run them, I'll talk to the owners."De Dollar Man is entered down at Ascot as well, but both are intended runners at the weekend. I'm keen to run them somewhere."With these novices you don't know if they've beaten good horses or bad horses. There's only one way to find out and that is to step them up."De Dollar Man is in the Neptune and Albert Bartlett at the Cheltenham Festival, while Report To Base is engaged in just the latter event.With the Festival in mind, Williams might skip Haydock with Evening Hush, who is in the Victor Ludorum Hurdle on Saturday's card, and go for the Adonis Hurdle at Kempton on February 25."I'd be pretty keen to get a run into her before Cheltenham, but I might wait with her for the Adonis," said Williams."The reality is I believe she is better than she showed at Chepstow and I'm half-tempted to go to the Adonis. They are sure to run a good horse or two there and we'll find out where we are."A run on Saturday would not tell me what I already know, but we will keep an eye on everything."Williams could also be double-handed in the Pertemps Network Handicap Hurdle Qualifier with Gayebury and Firebird Flyer."I was disappointed with Gayebury last time (at Hereford)," said the Llancarfan handler."I think he's more of a handicapper than a novice hurdler, so I might go with him if there is cut in the ground up there as there's sure to be, I imagine."Firebird Flyer has been disappointing. The old horse has lost his way, he's just not with it."I might give him a run over hurdles there, perhaps that might rekindle his enthusiasm, but he's an old boy and he's had a lot of battles and we're struggling with him."I'll be running a lot of them at the weekend to see where we are as far as the spring is concerned."