The reason I ask is that tbh I am pretty useless at tipping horses, much like Newsboy, Templegate et al. However, I would willingly accept a regular income to select a horse in every race of the day as there seems to be no performance related pay to this activity. Does anyone know what you have to do to get a job of this easiness?
i know templegate started by doing race reports and spotlighting for raceform(racing post) then moved to the sun to do journalism(not sure if race related). Then offered the job to became templegate when the old one retired. i think a lot end up starting this way. presumably no one would ever show profit tipping every race.
They really should be judged on the horses they nap, not all there selections. As like hawkeye says its impossible to win betting every race. There would be far to much form to study, to give a confident selection every race
I'll have a word with my boss nomoregeordies, 250squid a day do ya starting out? There will be bonuses and ad ons of course
"How do you get a job tipping horses for newspapers ?" In the old days, you needed an education at Eton. Now just a member of the Rag, Tag and Bobtail set.
NMG: Don't know much about how these guys get a job tipping horses, but, for today's punters, they must sort the wheat from the chaff. In the old days we paid real attention to people like Clive Graham (The Scout), Peter O'Sullevan, Tom Watson (Raceform), Phil Bull (Timeform's founder; can hardly call him a 'tipster' though), Richard Baerlein (very well connected, and a great racing journalist**), Graham Rock, to name but a few. Must leave it to the forum's younger members to advise on who the good ones are nowadays. Just chuck out the ones who got the job by luck or nepotism. **Here's Richard Baerlein's obituary in The Independent (written by his longtime friend, Tim Fitzgeorge-Parker). Richard Baerlein was quite the man: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaryrichard-baerlein-1611054.html
