15.40 Wolverhampton: Class 5 Handicap, 7 furlongs - Lightly raced Mops Angel is prominent in the betting and for good reasons. A winner of her last race, she has been more than fair assessed by the handicappers and could do well win again. Stepping up in trip may not be a problem and she'll be hard to beat. Main danger could be veteran Smalljohn, though. He didn't look exactly like going back to the winning ways in recent starts, though he wasn't far beaten the last two and seems to regain some form at least. Dropping another 2lb in the mark, he is now as low as he hasn't been for five years, and since then he has always won off higher marks. Obviously he is not getting any younger and probably his true merit lies around a mark off 60-66 these days. But rated 63 at the moment, with a decent apprentice in the saddle and the drawn in box 1, he should have ideal conditions to adopt his front-running tactics. There aren't any excuses today and I expect him to outrun his price tag.
Smalljohn @ 10/1 VC
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