Horse Racing Tipsters In The Papers.

[ynnafymmi]

Me and partner always like to have a punt on the nags.Today at Newcastle i decided to go for the papers tipsters choices.I get the Aberdeen Press and Journal,the Guardian,the Daily Mail and the Daily Record.Apart from one or two hot favourites,the tipsters got 95-100% wrong.Are the horse racing tipsters in the papers just as same as the horoscope astrologers.....write any old tripe and hope one day that what they predicted comes true?

[Spicerack]

I like Richard Birch (Racing Post) A lot of people say he's useless but he's always been lucky for me.

[Spicerack]

The tipsters were on a hiding to nothing that day, imo. Crap racing after a 3 month break.

[Ken4155]

The problem with most newspaper tipsters is that they quite often pin all their decisions on recent form. What one really had to do on June 1st, was follow those horses with a past record of running well after a lay off over 60 days or more. If they had proven form on the track, that was a bonus. I managed two of the biggest priced winners of the day - Zodiakos (25/1) and Queen Of Kalahari (16/1). I also had 2 that were beaten by a the thickness of a fag paper in photo finishes:-( None of mine were tipped up in the press.Togo also had a decent day with Brian The Snail and Oakenshield.
To be fair to newspaper tipsters, though, they do have to tip in every race. We, as punters, can pick and choose.

[Ken4155]

Now that we are almost a week back into the racing, it would probably pay to side with those trainers who have had a few winners over the last 5 days. Proves that they have their string ticking over.
Watching the first couple of days, it was quite obvious which jockeys had kept themselves quite fit during the lockdown. Some of the others were blowing like me after a walk up Pendle :-)

[Jonathan-Joe]

Surely, if they were any good at beating the bookies, they could live off their winnings and not have to work writing tipster columns to make a living.

[Bobnunton]

It's a mugs game

[Ken4155]

^
Haha, I've said that for years, jj. And we have to remember that these tipsters are privy to 'inside knowledge' from the stables. Before it's demise, I was a member of a gambling forum on Racing UK. I believe the current Newsboy in the Daily Mirror to be one of the worst tipsters it has ever been my misfortune to take any heed of. So much so that my username on that site was, 'defonotnewsboy'.

[Ken4155]

Thanks for that particular nugget, Bob. How original.

[Bobnunton]

That's ok.
I did not heed my own advice though yesterday.
I had £20 to win on Stradivarious

[Spicerack]

Gosden's a fiddler.

[Ken4155]

Only a mug's game Bob if you allow yourself to be seduced by it. Togo and myself have said many times on here that, to us, it is just fun. Neither of us gamble to 'get rich'. As the age old saying goes; 'The only way to make a small fortune from gambling is to begin with a large fortune'.
Wasn't yesterday's race being treated as a pipe-opener for Stradivarius?