Saturday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At York

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at 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 - 225.00pts staked, 227.56pts returned; +2.56pts.

15:00 York – Never So Brave – 1pt @ 3/1

I’m not convinced Rosallion will be in love with the 7f test at York and want to try get him beat. It’s far from rocket science to land on Never So Brave, but he’s a progressive sort who is in brilliant form and won’t mind returning to this trip following his Group 2 success in the Summer Mile.

Beating Point Lynas less than a length wouldn’t excite many in the context of this, but it was one of those contests where there were two races within one, the race of the pacemaker and the race of the rest. He looked much superior to Haatem and that’s what I’d judge him on.

He bolted up in the Buckingham Palace from joint top-weight the time before, looking levels above the opposition, and whilst this is his acid test, he looks ready for it. 3/1 hardly leaves that much to the imagination but even a minor step forward should see him hard to beat.

16:10 York – Tropical Storm – 1pt @ 25/1

Tropical Storm has to prove he’ll be able to stay this trip and I’m not sure whether he will, but he has come to York on two occasions and won both times. They were Listed races and he’ll have to improve on the figures achieved to land this off 101, but there’s a fair price to find out.

His last run at Ascot was a write-off, Oisin Murphy easing him down after he thought the horse lost his action. The previous start wasn’t great either, although it came in the Group 1 King Charles and he was out of his depth there. Speedier tracks play a bit more to his strengths anyway.

I did like his attitude when he beat Star Of Mehmas in the Westow and he hit the line perfectly well. How he’s going to stretch out to 6f in a race where they go hard remains to be seen but I think it’s worth a go. He has the attributes to do something in these big field handicaps before long.