Eight take on Master challenge

MASTER MINDED features among a field of nine runners in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot tomorrow.

The dual Champion Chase hero has enjoyed a fantastic start to the campaign, destroying his rivals in the Amlin 1965 Chase before following up in equally impressive style in the Tingle Creek at Cheltenham.

Five horses that took him on in the latter event reoppose this weekend, with Petit Robin (second), Somersby (third), I’m So Lucky (fourth), Gauvain (fifth) and Kalahari King (seventh) bidding to reverse form.