ITV Racing Tips: Raceolly's Five bets from Ascot, Haydock and Lingfield

With such a busy day's racing, our top tipster Raceolly has focused on the action in front of the ITV Racing cameras, and he has five tips for Saturday afternoon's racing from Ascot, Haydock Park and Lingfield Park...

13:45 Ascot - Royal Ascot Local Schools Art Competition Handicap

BOSS POWER should be spot on for this after a decent effort on the back of a 255-day break at Kempton. Nearly 50% of Sir Michael Stoute's horses aged four and over have at least placed over the last five years with 22% winning from 366 runners. Boss Power has ran well on the turf on plenty of occasions and shown enough to think an handicap mark of 95 is very workable.

15:00 Haydock - Pertemps Network Swinton Handicap Hurdle

ANTUNES is interesting in this competitive race off a hurdle mark of 121, 13lbs below his chase mark. Was running off 143 this time last year and won a chase off 131 last month and it’s also interesting Milton Harris makes the 400-mile round journey to Haydock with three runners on the day having only had three runners there for the last five years. Horses towards the bottom of the handicap have a good record in this with 14 of the past 19 winners carrying 11 stone and under.  See The Sea is also an interesting runner at a big price if not pestered to badly up front. 

15:15 Lingfield - SBK Oaks Trial Fillies' Stakes

SPEAK kicked her career off with a comfortable win over now 94 rated Natasha and ran a decent race in the Group 2 May Hill stakes at Doncaster on her last two-year-old start. Decent effort after a 214-day break in a decent looking maiden at Windsor and now comes to a venue where the trainer has a 20% win rate over the last five years.

15:30 Ascot - British EBF Fillies' Handicap

SPIRIT OF THE BAY improved 20lbs in four wins towards the end of last season and has reappeared this season with valid excuses for both defeats, the first after a 182-day break and the second time in a tactical race at Doncaster when sent off 11/10 fav. Trainer Clive Cox has a amazing profit of £154.35 if you backed all his Ascot runners with a £1 stake over the last five years after 18 winners from 119 runners and he’s been in top form lately also with five winners from his last 19 runners. 

16:05 Ascot - tote Victoria Cup

VAFORTINO ticks a lot of boxes in what you’d look for in a winner for this race and the eye-catching booking of Benoit De La Sayette is another huge plus. The apprentice jockey is seven winners from 15 rides for the yard (47% win rate). It’s rare the yard take one to Ascot and in fact have only had one runner in in his three year career so far so it’s interesting they have put Vafortino forward for this. The last eight winners have all been drawn in double figure stalls and four of them drawn in the 20’s making his draw of 27 look ideal. Age is also on our side with four-year-olds winning 11 of the last 19 runnings including five of the last six.