Sunday's Horse Racing Tips: James Boyle's Best Bets At Hamilton

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

17:15 Hamilton – Alpha Magic – 1pt @ 11/1

Alpha Magic has something to prove at present as prior to his recent run at Pontefract, he had been off since last July and we don’t know for certain whether his past abilities remain in place.

However, despite being a bit rusty when it was time to break, he showed bright speed to lead and understandably tired on the climb for home. It wasn’t the most efficient ride ever, especially on one likely to be a bit away from peak fitness, and I’m inclined to take a positive view of it.

This time around, we’re getting to see how he’ll perform at 5f. I think it could suit based on how he travelled through a strongly run 6f handicap at this track last June. He defeated Station X that day and the handicapper has been relatively kind in dropping him back to the same mark of 81.

It’s hard to be too confident but any double-figured price seems fair and the likelihood is that he will take a step forward from what was shown at Pontefract. How he’ll act against quicker horses adds in risk as it’s a total unknown, but he shapes like he could well enjoy it. Hopefully he does.