Yeah, Although my recollection is that his minor issue was pre Dublin, and am not sure if this was still an issue pre Cheltenham or not ?
You could be right though and he may have been taken out of the entries early on, I can;t remember really.
I just think that on the whole, they make some choices in a similar vein to the mantra of Cheltenham isn't the be all and end all, so given two of them have only ran in maidens it wouldn;t surprise if one of them is kept for aintree, is all I was suggesting. El Fabiolo may be the wrong example in that case.