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2023's Best Horse Racing Tipster

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Meet 2023's best horse racing tipster

2023 Horse Racing Tipster of the Year 

1st Place – HorseForaCourse

At-a-Glance Summary

  • £6,708 profit to level £20 stakes
  • An annual ROI of 57.6%
  • 16% win rate from 582 race-winner tips at average odds of 9/1+

PROFILE

If you're looking for a tipster with proven profitability over a prolonged period, then HorseForaCourse appears to tick all the right boxes after enjoying sustained success since launching his service on Tipstrr three and a half years ago.

Launched when racing resumed following the first Covid lockdown in June 2020, he has now established a firm foothold within the Tipstrr community to convert early promise into longer-term sustained profitability, illustrated by no fewer than seven appearances in 2023's monthly Best Tipster rankings, including one win, a second and three thirds.

  • FEB   2nd - 45 tips,  78% ROI, £923 profit
  • MAR   3rd - 52 tips, 106% ROI, £1,822 profit
  • APR   9th - 35 tips,  59% ROI,  £582 profit
  • JUL  3rd - 61 tips,  91% ROI,  £1,322 profit
  • AUG  3rd - 52 tips,  60% ROI,  £629 profit
  • SEP   1st - 50 tips, 158% ROI,  £1,588 profit
  • DEC   4th - 31 tips,  73% ROI,  £471 profit

HorseForaCourse's' selections offer average advised odds that nudge close to 10/1, so patience and betting discipline is recommended in order to absorb any inevitable lean spells between those tasty winners.

As with most services, it's probably advisable to divide an initial bankroll into 100 units, with one unit to be invested on each bet according to your finances and his simple single-unit staking plan. For example, if you want to bet £10 per bet, then you should have an initial £1000 betting fund (always made up of money you can afford to lose!!). 

SERVICE AND BETTING METHODS

The service of HorseForaCourse is built on a mid-range strategy that seeks to identify overpriced horses from the middle of the betting market, often opposing runners that appear favoured by the bookmakers' odds.

Once those selections have been identified, then HorseForACourse provides a service that is user-friendly, transparent and easy to follow:

  • A manageable supply of 10 to 15 tips per week
  • Tips usually published the night before racing
  • Other tips published on race day as and when value is identified
  • Most tips cover race-winner single bets, with occasional each-way tips
  • All tips recommending one betting unit.

Just divide your betting bank into 100 units, and leave it to HorseForaCourse's expertise to identify your bets and place one betting unit on each selection. That's all there is to it. 

The early publication of tips not only removes the stress of last-minute betting but also allows your tipster's eye for value to exploit any earlybird value before the market has taken shape. That early market value should help balance out the fact that early tips will not be eligible for BOG, but knowing H4AC's eye for value, his advised odds are more likely to tighten than to drift.

STATS

Unusually for this tipster, 2023 began with a rare drawdown month in January to go with another late-year setback, which can (and does!) happen to all tipsters, of course.

With that in mind, all the more credit to HorseForaCourse for managing to maintain such mouthwatering success throughout the remainder of 2023, and ending the year with a flourish with December's 73% ROI.

  • 9 profitable months out of 12, all above 26% ROI
  • 8 winning months above 55% ROI, two above 100%
  • Overall ROI of 57% across the whole of 2023
  • £6.7K profit won in 2023 to level £20 stakes
  • Average of 45-50 tips per month
  • 16% win rate at average odds nudging 10/1
  • 7 top ten appearances in monthly Best Tipster rankings
  • September Best Tipster winner with 158% ROI

All in all, 582 tips throughout the course of the year produced 91 winners for a 16% win rate made all the more impressive by the value he extracts from average advised odds of around 10/1.

Anyone familiar with backing horses regularly at that kind of price will know that patience and discipline can sometimes be required to protect your bankroll during the inevitable gaps between winners.

However, anyone keeping faith with HorseForaCourse's discerning eye for value last year would have been rewarded with over 330 units of profits, equating to just shy of £7,000 to level £20 stakes. 

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