Friday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Sandown & York

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at Sandown and York, with two selections 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.

13:50 York – Inspired – 1pt @ 11/2

Inspired had no obvious excuses when beaten into fourth at Wetherby last week but time may show that he is best suited to sitting a further back with cover in a bigger field.

He certainly caught the eye over C&D on his penultimate start when flashing home into fourth of 22 runners, and displayed more than enough ability to suggest he’d be winning soon.

Not everything went right that day either, early keenness and late traffic both limiting factors, but I really liked his showing once he got into the clear and there’s potential progression on the cards.

Being drawn wide again will hopefully ensure the patient route is explored once more and hopefully he won’t be as keen now that he has had a couple of runs. 11/2 seems fair to me.

14:13 Sandown – Nogo’s Dream – 1pt @ 17/2

Nogo’s Dream is a character, or a thinker, or whatever you want to call a questionable type! He hangs and holds his head high on occasions, but the talent to win a race like this is in the locker.

Four career wins and 14 career seconds tells a story of its own but he is running well, just narrowly touched off at Nottingham in April when coming back from a couple of months off, and then he was only beaten a length at Goodwood on his latest start a few weeks ago.

He’s back into a 0-80 now and none of the horses who ran against him last time would even be eligible to line up in this. Billy Loughnane takes over in the saddle, the draw is perfectly fine and he was better than the bare form suggests on his sole previous attempt over C&D.