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

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

Running P/L for the 2025 Flat Season - 209.50pts staked, 216.56pts returned; +7.06pts.

13:55 Goodwood – Master Builder – 1pt @ 15/2

The lack of a finishing effort from Master Builder on his two runs this season is a definite worry and something to be considered, but it’s 10 weeks since he has been on the track and hopefully he will land in form. If he does, there’s no doubt he has the talent to run big from 94.

His efforts last term yielded some good novice figures before finishing third in the Melrose on handicap debut, that coming on ground he would have felt quick enough. Then he scooted up in a valuable handicap at Haydock a couple of weeks later.

Three of his four runs that followed were far from disgraceful, the only true disappointment coming on his final three-year-old outing when the November handicap was a step beyond, but he hasn’t hit the line for any of them and this season’s two finishes have been particularly weak.

However, I’m sure the trainer will get him back on the right road at some point and maybe the horse just needed time. William Buick returns, which will help, he got experience of the C&D in May and the way the ground is could be a help. I’ll take a chance as 15/2 seems fair enough.

15:05 Goodwood – Korker – 1.50pts @ 25/1

Korker has Group-class ability but doesn’t have the gate speed to match. It has limited what he developed into but he was still rated 107 at his peak, has placed in an Ayr Gold Cup and won six races. Whether he’ll ever have a proper big day in the sun is highly questionable at this point.

On the other side of the coin, I think one of these 6f handicaps will fall his way sometime and a few of his runs this season would suggest he’s in fine form. Not so much his most recent one at York, but he had a terrible draw and got hampered when keeping on in the closing stages.

Before that, I liked how he shaped in the Wokingham. He was only eight at the line but hung badly right away from his group and still finished with a rattle, being one of only four horses in the 28-strong field to dip under 12 seconds for the final furlong.

Considering what he did in running sideways beforehand, he must be capable of better if things panned out here. It’s a different track and all sorts of luck will be required, but he’s a hold-up horse by default due to the stalls and that doesn’t mean he is lacking for speed.

Racing downhill could actually work well for him if he can find a rhythm in how he travels. That may be the problem if he gives away too much ground, but they’re going to fly early here and surely there’s a chance some of the hold up horses will be rattling through in the closing stages.

It’s hard to know and I could be barking up the wrong tree, as is often the case, but the price is just too generous. Unless Hammer The Hammer is a Group horse, which is possible, you’ll be able to throw a blanket over a lot of these at the line. Hopefully Korker is at the front of it.