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

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

13:50 Ascot – Heavenly Heather – 1pt @ 16/1

This is quite open and I don’t think Heavenly Heather is a 16/1 poke to win it.

Granted, she wasn’t at her best when racing against Fluorescence at Ayr a couple of weeks ago but the ground was soft and I reckon that impacted her finishing effort.

She threatened to play a part in the closing stages when driven into contention but her efforts to get into that position left her out of puff for when she needed to be going forward.

Reverting to a quicker surface could see her in a better light and she’s also back to the C&D where she ran so well in Group company at the Royal meeting a few months ago.

It’s always possible that there’s more to the latest performance than the ground, she may simply be out of form following a long year, but all of that feels accounted for in the price.

The best version of the mare is capable of mixing it with all of these.