2021 began as 2020 ended, with horse racing behind closed doors, meaning that live fans were unable to enjoy a wonderful Cheltenham Festival, while Rachael Blackmore was denied a rapturous parade around Aintree's winners' enclosure after her ground-breaking Grand National win on Minella Times.
The crowds thankfully returned in May, and throughout the entire topsy-turvy year, Tipstrr's horse racing services continued to provide some mouthwatering profits for their growing numbers of appreciative subscribers.
We've sorted them out for you in our annual rankings, and we start by counting down from tenth to sixth, with the top five to be announced tomorrow and Wednesday.
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10th 365 All Sports - 932 tips, 16.1% ROI
Profit: £2,996.96 to £20 stakes
Originally set up in February as a multi-sport service, it didn't take long for 365 All Sports to recognise that the strength of his expertise lay in his eye for mid-market outsider value in horse racing. Although he missed the first month of the year, he soon made up for lost time and enjoyed nine profitable months out of eleven to post a tidy 16% ROI over the course of the year. Minor success from just under 100 tips in other sports was far exceeded by his 16% win rate from over 800 race winner tips, converting his average advised odds of around 8/1 to just shy of £3K in annual winnings.
9th Value Ratings - 778 tips, 16.2% ROI
Profit: £2,514.99 to £20 stake
Only an untimely dip in form at the end of the year has prevented Value Ratings from occupying a higher position in this year's rankings. Prior to that, VR had enjoyed nine out of ten profitable months, all of them boasting double-digit yields, culminating in October's whopping 84% ROI that earned him our monthly Best Tipster accolade. A consistent output of around 60 race winner selections per week is kept simple with a single-unit staking plan, all adding up to a transparent manageable service aimed at extracting maximum value from over-priced mid-market selections.
8th On Target Tips - 2301 tips, 16.2% ROI
Profit: £7,477.10 to £20 stake
If you have the patience and discipline to manage plenty of betting activity, then you should love On Target Tips, who landed no less than 283 winners from his 2301 tips last year to remain one of Tipstrr's most popular horse racing services. He finished 2021 with three straight top-three appearances in our monthly Best Tipster rankings in October (3rd with 43% ROI), November (1st with 66%) and December (3rd with 52%), combining to yield an overall 48% ROI and over £4.5K in profit in just three months. (PS - he has also hit the ground running in similar fashion early in 2022.)
7th TC's Punts - 1425 tips, 18.8% ROI
Profit: £5,347.47 to £20 stakes
Another tipster to finish the year impressively, TC's Punts is the newest service to appear in our annual rankings, but he has shown enough since launching in March to earn this top ten accolade. Specialising in the National Hunt circuit, TC's 60/40 split between race winner and each way selections keeps betting varied, while his structured staking plan is geared towards protecting bankroll according to his tips' perceived value. His seven monthly gains have all been above 10%, culminating in December's fourth spot in our monthly best tipster countdown, when his 49% yield took his profits over the £4K mark since September.
6th CD Systems - Daily Bargain - 340 tips, 18.5% ROI
Profit: £3,099.44 to £20 stake
One tip per day, every day, always published the evening before racing, might sound like a simple betting strategy, but it takes dedicated research, expertise and a great eye for value to be able to pick out one solitary selection from a busy daily racecard. CD Systems Daily Bargain used that method to great effect to land 46 winning 'daily bargains' from 340 selections in 2021 - that's a a 14% win rate at average advised odds of 9/1, equating to an 18% yield and over £3K in winnings to £20 stakes. His full race previews that outline the reasoning behind each selection is just another feature that adds to the professionalism of this popular service.
We're saving the announcement of our top five services, including best horse racing tipster, for separate articles to be published over the next couple of days, but you can clearly see from the list above that the level of service;on Tipstrr has remained extremely high throughout 2021.
Indeed, the bar has been set so high that there was no room in the top ten for some of our most popular tipsters, all of whom yielded a yearly ROI in excess of 10% and deserve at least an honorary mention for their sustained success through 2021:
- Honest Jim - 18.6% ROI from 644 tips
- HorseForaCourse - 15.5% ROI from 784 tips
- AG Tips - 12.9% ROI from 971 tips
- Cliff's Value Tips - 12.6% ROI from 884 tips
- OnTheNose - 12.0% ROI from 332 tips
- ChampionsTips1 - 11.3% ROI from 1552 tips
- ProfitablePicks - 11.1% ROI from 720 tips
- Horse Racing Stable Income - 10.2% ROI from 1686 tips
That's quite a roll call, so well done to all of our listed tipsters, and indeed well done also to those that didn't quite make the cut, but remain a valued part of our ever-expanding Tipstrr community. We look forward to seeing more of the same in 2022.