Friday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Southwell

For today's horse racing tips, our analyst James Boyle looks at the All-Weather racing at Southwell, 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 2025/26 All-Weather Season - 4.00pts staked, 0.00pts returned; -4.00pts.

16:30 Southwell – Bella Perla – 1pt @ 11/4

This looks like a potential match between Bin Ajwad and Bella Perla, both of whom arrive chasing a hat-trick of All-Weather wins. Maybe some of the others will be able to kick on with them but the pair look capable of heading into the higher grades before too long.

My preference is for Bella Perla, who may have a bit of an edge in the speed stakes as I’m pretty sure that Bin Ajwad will want a sterner test of stamina before too long. It’s tough to be certain but he’s up another 7lbs and could be edging closer to what his limit is as a miler.

The Crisford filly didn’t seem to achieve all that much when scoring over a mile at Lingfield last time, doing so at restrictive odds of 4/9, but the 70-rated runner-up has since finished second in a Listed race over the same C&D. It may have been a better effort than it looked at the time.

She’s up 5lbs and onto a different track, but did win her maiden over 7f here and that was quite an impressive performance. The pace caught her out but she flew home to win easily from a couple of subsequent winners. The mile here should be perfect and I’d expect another step forward.

17:00 Southwell – Rajapour – 1pt @ 11/1

Rajapour won the first three starts of his career when trained in France, including a Listed race, and has gone 0-15 since. Not ideal but his mark reflects where he’s at and it looks workable.

He never landed a blow at Chelmsford last time, ending up further back in the field than ideal, but ran on reasonably in the straight to grab fifth and showed he’s in better form than his previous two starts had suggested. It’s something to build on and he’s another 2lbs lower now.

The main source of hope was how he performed on his All-Weather debut over C&D in September, beaten a length into fifth, and he’s closely matched with the much shorter priced Borgi on that spin. If he can get a better early position than last time, he shouldn’t be too far away.

17:30 Southwell – King Of Ithaca – 1pt @ 5/1

King Of Ithaca wouldn’t have the scope to improve as much as the pair heading the market but he has three wins and a couple of places from eight attempts over C&D.

Running at Kempton on his two starts following a break didn’t help to see him in the best light but they were respectable efforts nonetheless, both in races where the speed dominated. He had no chance to latch onto it at any stage on either occasion but still shaped perfectly fine.

His mark is back down to the same one he defied over C&D in February under the returning Rossa Ryan and his last three course wins have all followed previous runs at Kempton. I’d imagine he has been lined up for this and it should be run to suit from a pace perspective.