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

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the flat racing at Ayr, 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 change. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

13:20 Ayr – Theoryofeverything – 1pt @ 7/1

I backed Theoryofeverything to win this race last year and he ran a cracker to finish in second place, and I’m going to try again now that he’s returning from a 4lb lower mark.

His latest run is nothing to get excited by, weakening away at the end of a slog at Beverley, but that came over 1m 2f on horrible ground and stretched his stamina reserves too much.

Getting back to a mile will help and he won over C&D on his penultimate start despite the ground being quicker than he wants. The runner-up has enhanced that form since as well.

This level of opposition are better, no doubt, but he has enough ability to trouble them all and more favourable conditions can help him to step forward on what he did here last month.

14:30 Ayr – Veblen Good – 1pt @ 33/1

Veblen Good may or may not be happy on softer ground, I don’t know, and therein lies an extra risk when it comes to siding with him in the ultra-competitive Silver Cup.

I am, however, pretty certain that he has the ability to thrive in a big field handicap like this and he looks quite overpriced at around the 33/1 mark now returned to a sprint trip.

Going up to 7f at Ascot last time out did nothing for him at all, which wasn’t a surprise based on how he shapes in races, and he’ll be happier tackling today’s test.

His York fourth in July, when only beaten a length in a £100k heritage handicap, helps to show what he can do from this mark and if the ground is workable, he’s a live outsider.

15:40 Ayr – Fine Interview – 1pt @ 10/1

Fine Interview has only made it to the track on three occasions this season, presumably due to the ground he wants not being around and there won’t be any such problems today.

He returned from an 11 week break in a valuable handicap at the Ebor festival and ran well to come home in seventh, only beaten a couple of lengths behind Sondad.

I got the impression that he found things happening a bit quickly on York’s sprint track, possibly because he wasn’t fully sharp on the back of his time away.

That won’t be an issue any longer, today’s contest may well have been his main target for the end of season action and I think he’s capable of being heavily involved from a mark of 99.

It’s a seriously competitive race as usual but he has all the tools needed to be effective and 10/1 seems fair. I don’t mind the draw in 25 either, it should give him the cover he needs.