Friday'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 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.

16:25 York – Hallo Spaceboy – 1pt @ 6/1

Three-year-old runners have landed the last four renewals of this race and I will be disappointed if we don’t see Hallo Spaceboy making a good fist of it becoming five in a row.

Granted, his form has a look of becoming regressive but that has come about from tackling stakes races and he actually shaped well for a long way in France two runs ago.

That was at Listed level over 6f, then he dropped back to the minimum in a Group 3 at Newbury and found it all too hot in that company. I wouldn’t be passing much heed on the performance.

He’ll be happier this time and he has course experience, running well on debut last autumn and landing his sole handicap to date here in June, impressing with how he travelled.

Dropping into a handicap is another huge help and I’m certain he’s better than an 89 horse. The draw is slightly off-putting as I’d prefer to be lower down, but he’s still a bet.