Sports Journalist · 7 articles
On Friday it was Brighton, where two tracked tipsters backed the same beaten horse. Saturday raised the stakes. Newsboy of the Daily Mirror and Robin Goodfellow of the Daily Mail – Fleet Street’s two longest-serving racing pseudonyms – napped the same two-year-old filly, Oddschecker’s flagship column priced her at 2/1, and Harry Wilson advised her […]
Alex Hammond is one of the most familiar faces in British racing, and her Shergar Cup preview column named a selection in all six races at Ascot on Saturday. This ledger, which starts every new arrival on 10 units, settled all six at starting price because none carried a quoted one. The Alex Hammond tips […]
The Racing Post’s own headline promised that Harry Wilson had “fired in 16-1 and 8-1 winners in his last column”, which is exactly the sort of thing tipping desks say the week before the wheels come off. I speak from experience; my wheels are still somewhere on the A1. So it brings me no pleasure […]
The ledger grew from four names to ten on Saturday, because Shergar Cup day is when every tipping desk in the country puts its judgement in the shop window, and I see no reason the window shouldn’t carry a price tag. House rules for the new arrivals, identical to the old: 10 units to start, […]
Here’s a trade secret from someone who used to be on the other side of the ledger: the NAP is the shop window, but it’s rarely where the money is. The Sun’s Templegate spent Friday proving it. His most confident bet of the day beat three horses home, and he still finished the day as […]
There’s a special kind of pain in tipping that civilians never experience: the fourth-place finish in a three-place race. On Friday at Brighton, two of the four tipsters we track walked into it holding hands, on the same horse, in the same race. The race was the 4.00, the Harry Bloom Memorial “Brighton Bullet”, six […]
I gave out tips for a living for six years, and the one thing the game taught me is that every tipster’s column reads like a winning one. The results, mysteriously, never get the same word count. So this is the ledger nobody in the tipping trade wants: every big-name tipster we track starts with […]