Should be child’s play for Cox’s returning racer

Expect Now Children to score at Wolverhampton after 500-day absence

NOW CHILDREN is a fascinating runner in the Betway Live Casino Handicap for Clive Cox at Wolverhampton.

Returning from an absence of over 500 days, he won two of his three races for Iain Jardine as a juvenile but missed his entire three-year-old season.

A horse he beat twice, Euro Nightmare, is now rated 90 so a mark of 87, despite the absence, could be lenient.

TWIN APPEAL can build upon a very encouraging run last time out in the Bet & Watch At sunbets.co.uk Handicap.

David Barron’s seven-year-old finished a fine third behind Von Blucher in a deeper race than he faces here and can get back to winning ways.

Prior to that he won over the seven furlongs at Dunstall Park, finishing second on his only other appearance in the Midlands.

MADAME JO JO is bred to be a good bit better than a 59-rated sprinter and there are signs she is finally getting it together ahead of the 32Red.com Handicap.

Her dam was a sister to an American Grade Two winner and she is also related to Pirouette and Harmonic Way.

Trained by Sarah Hollinshead, she showed little of note at big prices in

maidens before being beaten just over a length off a mark of 60 in her first nursery.

Having failed to build on that next time, it was pleasing to see her perform much better last time out when third of seven over this course and distance.

DRAGON MALL has surely been found a winning opportunity by David Simcock at Chelmsford.

The toteplacepot race 1 to 6 Novice Stakes is the easiest assignment he has been given for some time, having run in Group races in the past.

SELECTIONS: CHELMSFORD: 1.55 Dragon Mall, 2.25 Mimram, 3.00 Fire snake, 3.30 Go On Gal, 4.00 Duke Cosimo, 4.30 Limerick Lord.

WOLVERHAMPTON: 4.55 Shanghai Elastic, 5.25 Daily Trader, 5.55 Madame Jo Jo, 6.25 TWIN APPEAL (NAP), 6.55 Circling Vultures, 7.25 Critical Thinking, 7.55 Now Children, 8.25 Roundabout Magic.

DOUBLE: Twin Appeal and Now Children.