Saturday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Lingfield & Southwell

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the All-Weather racing at Lingfield and Southwell, 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 be moved in by the betting public. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

15:30 Lingfield – Charlie Mason – 1pt @ 5/1

Claims can be made for pretty much the whole field but Charlie Mason is the one I’m liking the most, and hopefully the presence of Cieren Fallon will be able to eke out a bit more from him.

His performances under lesser riders in January were good, finishing a neck behind the winner at Chelmford before doing best of the hold-up horses over C&D just five days later. It was a sound effort in the circumstances and he’s capable of better when granted a suitable pace to sit off.

Whether that’s going to happen today is the question and I don’t know the answer yet, but I’m happy to accept 5/1 in order to find out. If he breaks, he has a nice draw to exploit as well.

18:00 Southwell – Brazilian Rose – 1pt @ 10/3

Brazilian Rose won a trio of Newcastle handicaps last January and was aiming to repeat the trick at this track last week. That didn’t work out but it wasn’t due to her going out of form.

She was keen early at the longer 7f trip and as the race was developing up top, traffic became an issue. She didn’t exactly fly home once in the clear but the keenness may have taken a toll and there’s every chance that she’ll be a happier horse back over a sprinting trip.

That comment may not apply to favourite Mereside Diva, who was a few lengths ahead of Brazilian Rose when they faced off last week, and I hope to see the form turn around this time.