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

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

16:52 Goodwood – Al Arbeed – 1pt @ 8/1

Al Arbeed stepped up to 1m 1f for a hot race at Newmarket last time and it was a waste of a run, as he wouldn’t get the trip in a horsebox against opposition of a high level.

Prior to that, he had a couple of spins over this 7f trip and seemed in need of the run at Kempton, then at Musselburgh he was turning out quickly. It may have limited what he was capable of showing, although it was a perfectly respectable effort all the same and he’s 3lbs lower now.

Blinkers go on for the first time, something Richard Hannon mooted as being on the cards after his penultimate start. What impact they’ll have is guesswork, it could be a positive or a negative, but one of his siblings didn’t win until the same headgear went on and bolted up by 7-lengths.

The market is suggesting I’m barking up the wrong tree as he’s easy to back, but I think there’s more to come from him at some point soon and he’s off a mark that should see involvement when it matters most, so long as he does actually take to the blinkers.