King Faces Seven At Haydock Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kicking King and fellow Irish raider Beef Or Salmon head a fascinating field of eight runners declared for the Betfair Chase at Haydock Park on Saturday. Hand Inn Hand, who is also entered at Huntingdon this weekend, rank outsider Happy Hussar and Howard Johnson´s classy Lord Transcend were the only withdrawals at the final 48-hour declaration stage. Ollie Magern, rated by the bookmakers as the main danger to Kicking King on the back of his impressive Charlie Hall Chase success last month, has been declared by Nigel Twiston-Davies. Kingscliff and Take The Stand chased Ollie Magern home that day and will reoppose while Jonjo O´Neill´s Keen Leader, twice at winner at Haydock and a fourth-fence faller in the Charlie Hall, will take his chance. Gold Cup fourth and Grand National runner-up Royal Auclair is the sole runner from Paul Nicholls´ yard while last year´s Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup winner Celestial Gold is Martin Pipe´s representative. Betfair Chase, Paddy Power bet: 10-11 Kicking King, 4-1 Ollie Magern, 7-1 Beef Or Salmon, 8-1 Kingscliff, 11-1 Celestial Gold, 12-1 Keen Leader, 20-1 Take The Stand, 28-1 Royal Auclair? PA Sport
