PIPSSALIO holds live claims in the Stanley Racing City & Suburban Handicap at Epsom tomorrow and has the great additional benefit of being set to go off at a decent price too.

The four-year-old looks a classic example of "small-trainer syndrome" where if he was trained by Luca Cumani or Sir Michael Stoute, he would have the tipsters waxing lyrical over his chances.

But based with Jamie Poulton in East Sussex, Pipssalio will escape the attentions of many punters straight away.

However, close examination of the formbook will tell you that he is one to be most interested in.

A winner from good yardstick Supply And Demand in soft ground at Kempton last year (when he was the only three-year-old competing against older and more-experienced rivals), he was raised only 3lb for that effort and looked unlucky not to follow up at Sandown on his next start.

Slowly away, he forfeited a deal of ground and finishing like a train, it was not to argue that he would have improved upon his fourth placing with better fortune in the early stages of the race.

Pipssalio is still able to race off the same handicap mark as for that narrow defeat and should have been brought to his peak by an eye-catching reappearance last week in the Roseberry Handicap at Kempton where he made steady late progress to finish a never-nearer eighth of the 19 runners.

That run should have brought him on nicely and with ground conditions in his charge's favour, Poulton will be hopeful of a big run.

Bawsian can take the Stanley Racing Great Metropolitan Stakes.

Les Eyre nominated this £15,000 race as his charge's next target in thewinner's enclosure after the six-year-old's runaway success at Nottingham last time out.

And the Yorkshire trainer has certainly found a rich vein of form with Bawsian, who has bolted up in soft ground on his two starts so far this term.

Those two wins have seen Bawsian's handicap mark rocket to 82, but he hadwinning form off even higher marks as a three-year-old and if he has been fully rejuvenated, then he would surely be up to winning again.

Some stables have been slow to hit top gear this season but Sean Woods' yard has been a real exception, with a host of early winners.

The Newmarket trainer can strike with Bogus Penny in the Stanley Racing Maiden Stakes.

The filly seemed to be all at sea on her all-weather debut earlier this month but has some good form to her name on turf last year and can break her duck against some modest-looking rivals.