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

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at Ripon, 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.

15:25 Ripon – Fast Track Harry – 1.50pts @ 13/2

Clive Cox has only visited Ripon once in the last five years but he’s up with a couple of runners today and has a live chance of winning the big handicap with Fast Track Harry.

I’m ignorantly persistent with horses when I’m certain they’re capable of bigger performances and this will be the fourth time I’ve backed this fellow since the turf season began!

If it doesn’t work out here, it could well be the last time, but I loved the way he moved through his race at Ascot last month when second to Amazing Journey when wearing first-time cheekpieces.

He couldn’t cope with the clearly well-handicapped winner but kept going for second and again gave off the impression that he can do better when circumstances allow.

Switched over to a speed track, those circumstances may appear now and he’s bound to get a harder gallop to sit off than was the case at Ascot, where they went hilariously slow for a sprint.

Being drawn in the middle should be fine and if he gets the splits when they’re needed, I’ll be disappointed if he’s not heavily involved. He has all the tools needed to run big.