If you're looking for a dog the model loves today, Doc Susie at Monmore in the 16:42 A4 over 480m is the standout name on the card. The C S Fereday-trained bitch carries a composite score of 91 — a figure that puts her in genuinely rarefied air and stands a country mile clear of her opposition, none of whom rate above 51. That's the kind of separation that makes the rest of the analysis feel academic.
She's drawn in trap four, the middle ground on Monmore's four-bend 480m, and arrives off the back of a winning return at the venue. Her A5 victory at Monmore on 18 May was the kind of clean strike that suggests a dog operating well within itself, and the form behind that is full of substance: an OR winner at Oxford in January over 450m in 27.22, and consistent Open-class placings at the same circuit through last winter. The class drop from those Oxford runs into Monmore A4 looks pointed.
What catches the eye most is the gap on figures. Aero Immoral in trap five rates 51, Phoenix Posh and Aero Dulcie tie at 49, Aero Colossus at 48 — this is a field where the model essentially sees one dog and four others. Doc Susie was bred for the job (by Good News out of Moments Of Magic) and at just over two years old she's at the point in her career where you'd expect the curve to be steepening, not flattening. Monmore 480m is a strong-running surface that rewards genuine class, and on every available metric Doc Susie has it over this lot. The trip, the trap and the class drop all point the same way.