Saturday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Ascot, Newmarket & York

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at Ascot, Newmarket and York, with three 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 be moved in by the betting public. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

Running P/L for the 2025 Flat Season - 187.00pts staked, 205.96pts returned; +18.96pts.

14:00 York – Old Cock – 1pt @ 11/2

Old Cock has a brilliant record on good or quicker ground, winning four of his five attempts, and there could be more improvement to come. There will have to be considering he’s up to a mark of 94 now but that’s with good reason, as he won the Hambleton over C&D in May off 90.

He’s not weighted to confirm the form with runner-up Sisyphean, but I preferred the way he went through the race and he found more for pressure than may have been expected on some of his past hints. It was only a half-length victory, but was quite comfortable all things considered.

A couple of months have passed and I’m not sure why he hasn’t been out since, but it’s possible he needed time to get over that effort. There’s a C&D handicap at the Ebor meeting he’ll be going for and hopefully it’s on the back of winning this. He’s a fair price to do so.

16:35 Newmarket – Jasour – 1pt @ 25/1

Jasour isn’t the easiest ride in the world and, for the most part, has been going through the motions. It’s hard to see him changing that around in a July Cup but he wasn’t disgraced on either attempt at Ascot when racing in both of the all-aged Group 1 sprints at the Royal meeting.

I backed him on the first occasion in the King Charles, hoping they’d go too quick and pull him into it late. That didn’t work out and neither did his subsequent run behind Lazzat, where he could only plug on through beaten horses after the front two had quickened clear of the field.

On those performances, he has no chance here, but it’s a different track and there’s a possibility the speed will get pushed on earlier. That happened in the race last year but he tanked his way along and did too much before weakening into a three-length sixth behind Mill Stream.

This has the makings of a better renewal but it’s a bigger field, the ground will be faster and he’s a more appealing price. He’ll probably pull too hard or get too far back to land a blow once again, but if things do drop right for him, he won’t be deemed at 25/1+ poke late in the day.