Lucky 15 Tips: Friday’s best bets across the tracks using our NAPs table

Posted by Admin March 7, 2025 Horse Racing

Friday’s Lucky 15 tips

14:10 Exeter – Soul Icon
14:20 Leicester – Walkinthewoods
15:35 Ayr – Vampire Slayer
17:02 Leicester – Yccs Portocervo

*All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change.

Each and every day of the racing year, we bring you a bumper NAPS Table to give you the inside scoop on all the plays you’ll need that day.

Don’t know what an NAPs Table is? We’ll tell you! It’s an independently run competition involving the cream of the British and Irish racing press whose positions in the table are based on their profits to Level Stakes. And just like all sports competitions worldwide, those doing best are towards the top of the table.

So, we decided to put that golden guide to the test and use it to steer you towards what could be a savvy Lucky 15 (4 horses, 15 bets) today. The four you’ll see below are the selections of some of the top-performing tipsters in the Table. Let’s get to the picks…

A small field, but it’s a good-quality opener at Exeter. If SOUL ICON is in the same form as when winning the Desert Orchid at Kempton over Christmas he might be able to give the weight away.

Cases can be made for most, but the preference is for WALKINTHEWOODS, who should have cashed in on his much-reduced chase mark at Ffos Las last week, but his inexperienced rider misjudging things. The pair can make amends at the expense of Nine Nine Nine, who won this event last year and arrives on the back of a good second here 10 days ago. Bumpy Evans and Kingcormac can fight out third.

VAMPIRE SLAYER shaped well in a race that’s likely to prove as strong form on his handicap debut at Newcastle, so he’s an appealing candidate, with further improvement on the cards. Ballyfort will benefit from a return to 2m and should go well, with Mix de Gris completing the shortlist.

YCCS PORTOCERVO has an absence to overcome, but his record is a positive one, so he’s fancied to hit the ground running after nine months off and take his record in hunters to three wins from four starts. Joker de Mai shaped as if he’d come on for his reappearance third at Taunton in January and rates as the chief danger.