Friday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets at Glorious Goodwood

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

15:00 Goodwood – Blue Brother – 1pt @ 7/1

Blue Brother went off as the joint-favourite for the Buckingham Palace over 7f at Royal Ascot but having presumably been saved for the Hunt Cup, for which he was the subject of a big gamble in 2025, he ended up missing the cut for that contest by a single spot.

There was lots of money around for him again in the shorter race and he performed really well to finish fourth, he was just a bit too fresh. That didn’t aid his cause when it came to finishing the race and it was his first outing for exactly 365 days, so he may well sharpen up for it anyway.

Based on that performance, he’s clearly capable of running to a good level at seven-furlongs but I think he’ll be happier at the mile and he’s obviously thought to be very well handicapped.

Goodwood provides a different test than he has encountered on his British starts and it’ll be interesting to see how he takes to the place, but it could play to his strengths.

The draw hasn’t been too harsh, coming out of stall seven now that Beagle Bay is a non-runner, and it shouldn’t be hard to get a decent slot from there. Luck late on will be the main thing to hope for but that’s applicable to all of them and if Blue Brother runs to his best, he’s a big player.

15:35 Goodwood – Azure Angel – 1pt @ 40/1

Azure Angel is one of those sprinters who I feel has a bigger performance in the locker when getting her absolute ideal scenario and that may happen tackling the downhill test here.

She’s certainly arriving in good form, running past half the field in the King Charles at Royal Ascot inside the final furlong. The problem was that she was trying to catch them from last position.

The only other horses to go sub 12 seconds through that last furlong were the first and second, and it was another run that left me thinking there’s a big sprint coming her way sometime.

York was the next port of call, dropped into Listed level under a penalty, and she ran big again to be beaten a length. She travelled far too well, if anything, and got towards the front of the field way earlier than you’d want to see, which was a stark contrast to Ascot.

Here, they’re going to go very, very fast, she will get to experience racing downhill for the first time and shouldn’t have the opportunity to end up in the lead so soon.

She is a 40/1 shot, of course, so getting into the lead at any point is unlikely, but there’s a lot of raw talent in place and if she can swing along as well as I think is possible on this track, things may get interesting late on. Quotes of 33/1, and bigger in places, make plenty of appeal.