Last year's winner Cue Card features in a select list of nine horses confirmed for the Betfair Chase at Haydock on Saturday.
Colin Tizzard's stable star could renew rivalry with Dynaste and Silviniaco Conti, a respective second and third in the Grade One 12 months ago.
Cue Card, who was returning from a long injury-enforced absence and who had also undergone a breathing operation, finished fourth in the Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter over an inadequate trip on his comeback at the start of this month.
The Paul Nicholls-trained Silviniaco Conti disappointed in fifth in the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby on his seasonal reappearance, but Nicholls will be hopeful of major improvement after admitting that his charge needed that outing.
The David Pipe-trained Dynaste has not raced since finishing second to Silviniaco Conti in the Betfred Bowl at Aintree in April.
Menorah, who won the Charlie Hall, could try to continue Philip Hobbs' tremendous run of form.
Other horses from the Wetherby race in at Haydock are runner-up Taquin Du Seuil, from Jonjo O'Neill's yard, fourth-placed Medermit, trained by Alan King, and the seventh and last home, David Bridgwater's The Giant Bolster.
The Nigel Twiston-Davies-trained Double Ross and Kim Bailey's Harry Topper complete the list of possibles.
