Saturday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets at York

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at York, with one selection now online.

As always, you’ll find the most up-to-date odds at the best horse racing betting sites, but our tipster’s predictions are researched early in the day and those prices could soon change. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

15:17 York – Dark Thirty – 1pt @ 16/1

I’m going to take a chance on Dark Thirty returning to form.

In fairness to the horse, he’s not that long removed from an excellent run in a big handicap at the Curragh, where he finished third behind Coul Angel.

On paper, he looked to have serious claims at Ripon last time but was a big drifter in the betting and ran accordingly, under pressure some way out before being eased.

Why he performed so poorly is beyond me but that track can knock horses out of a rhythm easily enough and he certainly didn’t go along how he can when things are going to plan.

Returning to York, where he has won twice, could help matters, as could Jason Hart taking over from an apprentice rider, and there isn’t an excess of speed horses lining up in opposition.

They’ll go quick enough, no doubt, given that it is a York sprint, but those who are near the front could be at an advantage and if he breaks, he’ll be somewhere near there.