In the absence of the withdrawn Buxted Too, the current market leader is Nolton Cross, a previous winner at this venue who should go well under James Doyle, even though he has an unfavourable wide draw in stall 11.

Nolton Cross comes here on the back of a 12-furlong win on the Southwell Tapeta last month, where he won what looked a stronger Class 4 handicap than this one.
With figures of 2241 from his last four runs on Tapeta (the last three of them in 12-furlong handicaps) Nolton Cross was only once beaten by more than half a length during that sequence, so he is clearly a very consistent performer under these conditions.
He has to go on the shortlist, but one who can beat him today is Daheer, who also beat him when the pair clashed in a handicap over this very trip in December.
On that occasion, Nolton Cross went from the front , kicking for home off the home bend but he was headed inside the final furlong, eventually finishing two lengths back in fourth.

19:30 (Wolverhampton) Daheer

The winner of that handicap, Queen Of Ipanema, is a highly progressive handicapper who was completing a five-timer when winning that race, while the runner-up, Obsidian Knight, also advertises the form because he was last seen winning a 12-runner 0-82 handicap over this trip at Lingfield, off a two-pound higher mark.

Less than a length behind Obsidian Knight in third place was Daheer, despite not enjoying a clear run and having to be switched off the far rail and around the leader (Nolton Cross) with a furlong to go, from where he stayed on strongly to finish a length ahead of his rival by the time the line arrived.
Daheer's only run since then is easy to ignore because he was greatly inconvenienced by being held up at the rear in a Southwell handicap that was run at a slow pace.
But Daheer has enjoyed five course wins here, all of which were over the shorter 9.5-furlong trip, but he has had only a couple of opportunities over 12 furlongs and he showed here on the latest of them that he gets the trip without a problem.
His last two course wins came off today's mark of 79 and the one before that came off 81, so he is handicapped to strike again around here, with Mark Winn's good-value five-pound claim being another plus.

Two of the Daheer's last four course wins were in higher-tier Class 4 company, so he looks a good bet in this lower-tier Class 4 as he returns here following a short break - he has won and finished a close second from the three previous occasions he has run here following a break.