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Eight have entered Saturday’s Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby including last year’s winner Bravemansgame.

Paul Nicholls' charge took the Wetherby highlight en route to Grade 1 King George VI success at Kempton Park and connections will be hoping the eight-year-old can repeat the feat. 

Bravemansgame has not been seen since a third in the Punchestown Gold Cup and he finished best of the rest behind Galopin Des Champs in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March.

He could be joined by stablemate Pic D'Orhy, whilst Lucinda Russell's Grade 1 winner Ahoy Senor holds two entries on the card - in the Charlie Hall and the feature hurdle. 

Dan Skelton fields two entries - Midnight River and Sail Away - alongside Harriet Graham's Aye Right and the Jeremy Scott-trained Dashel Drasher. Gentlesmangame is the sole representative from Ireland, trained by Mouse Morris. 

Wetherby's Clerk of the Course Jonjo Sanderson is anticipating testing conditions at the meeting.

"We had six millimetres of rain overnight and I'd say ground is probably slightly nearer soft than good to soft," he said.

"The weather forecast is mixed, to say the least. They're saying we might get 5mm overnight tonight, 4mm overnight tomorrow night and then this storm is brewing.

"From Thursday into Friday it looks like being a wet 24 to 30 hours, so we'll see what happens. At the moment they're saying something between 15mm and 20mm of rain through that period.

"The track will take that, I would hope. Our issue is when we get heavy rain in a short period of time, the dykes lift up and you get water pooling on the track, as opposed to the track being waterlogged.

"I don't think 20mm will cause that, it would be more like 40mm or 50mm. There's nothing in the forecast at the moment that would give us concern, but if we get what's on the horizon, the chances are we're going to be soft ground Friday/Saturday."