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 be moved in by the betting public. Odds stated are correct at the time of publishing.

Running P/L for the 2025 Flat Season - 137.50pts staked, 151.46pts returned; +13.96pts.

17:15 Hamilton – Manila Scouse – 1.50pts @ 16/1

Manila Scouse is a better horse than this season’s form suggests and if Tim Easterby has managed to get him firing at home in the five weeks since we last got to see him, he could be a player. If rain hits the track, he will have an even better chance of coming away with a win.

I backed him at Chester last time in the hope that things might work out from stall six but he’s best near the pace and couldn’t get any closer than mid-division on the rail. When in the straight, all of the finishers were up the middle and he was probably on the slower ground.

It may be a run that is better than the book suggests and he’ll prefer racing at a more demanding track. His last three wins have been at Chepstow (5f twice) and here (6f), and it’s pretty clear that alongside having plenty of early pace, he does stay well on the stiffer tracks.

That course win came around this time last year when appearing to be a bit out of form running on speed tracks and whilst not quite as well handicapped now, his mark has come down 6lbs. It’s one he has no problem with when things pan out and there looks to be a lot in his favour.

This is competitive and a number of the opponents are more obviously in-form, but both of last season’s wins represented major form figure improvements on what he did previously and what he’ll need to jump up to win this isn’t as severe as either of those.

Of course, the risk lies in whether he can bounce back at this moment in time. Just because it has happened before doesn’t mean it will again, but the ability is there if it can be coaxed out. And, to make a long story short, I reckon he’s a more than fair price regardless of any well-being risks.