Decorated steeplechaser Bashboy will keep a fortnightly racing schedule as he heads towards his main goal of the jumps season.

Fresh from an impressive jumps return at Bendigo on Sunday, Bashboy will have his next run in the $100,000 Thackeray Steeplechase at Warrnambool on Sunday week.

Trainer Ciaron Maher said the reigning Australian Jumper of the Year would race every two weeks leading into the $250,000 Grand National Steeplechase at Sandown on July 28.

"He pulled up great after Sunday and having a race every two weeks until the National is a really nice program for him," Maher told www.racingvictoria.net.au.

Maher said the 2011 Grand National Steeplechase winner Man Of Class would now head to the paddock following his fourth placing to Bashboy in Sunday's Mosstrooper.

"I'll give him a break and get him ready for Oakbank and Warrnambool again next year," he said.

Trainer Robert Smerdon will separate jumps stars Black And Bent and Brungle Cry after the pair finished third and last respectively in Sunday's $100,000 Brendan Drechsler Hurdle (3200m) at Bendigo.

Smerdon said Black And Bent had taken no harm from a defeat which ended a record 10-race winning sequence over jumps and the champion would now head towards the $100,000 Kevin Lafferty Hurdle at Warrnambool on Sunday week.

Brungle Cry also came through the race unscathed but Smerdon said he was unlikely to have another jumps outing until the Grand National Hurdle on July 14 at Sandown.

"His main aim is the Grand National and he'll probably go back to the flat in between," Smerdon said.

Peter Moody's exciting jumper Macedonian will clash with Black And Bent in the Kevin Lafferty.

Macedonian kept an unbeaten record over obstacles with his latest win in Adelaide on June 9.

Bashboy's rider Steve Pateman had a partial victory in his appeal against a careless riding charge arising from his effort on Black And Bent on Sunday with one meeting shaved off his penalty.

However, he will miss Wednesday's Sandown meeting with replacement riders required for Patrick Payne's jumpers Chaparro and Fieldmaster.