2021 was another year filled with ups and downs.
But when the world was flipped upside-down once again, horse racing provided a rare shining light, putting smiles on the faces of punters up and down the country.
We've run the numbers to come up with our annual Tipsters of the Year awards. Anyone whose tips are captured on the site are included. The list is large, including over 1,000 punters, professional tipsters and experts from the racing media.
Speaking of the media experts and they really demonstrated why their opinions are trusted by fans of the great game.
Three of the top four best performing tipsters for the Profit on Turnover (POT) category came from their mob.
When it came to the race of the states, WA won with a leg in the air.
There were 4 Sandgropers in the top 10, including the highest Cash Profit maker .
Read on to discover all of 2021's top horse racing performers.
| Tipster | Winning Tips | POT | |
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Brendan Delaney | 38 | 55% |
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AsianDaveBlue1951 | 11 | 34% |
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Chris Blackwell | 143 | 29% |
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Mitchell Hamilton | 60 | 23% |
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Terry McCormack | 47 | 21% |
Brendan Delaney has been crowned Tipster of the Year for 2021, after a cracking year which saw his 108 tips yield an incredible 55% POT.
This may come as a surprise to many, given Delaney is known better to some a greyhound tipster.
His versatility as a form analyst was on show for all to see throughout the year, and the undoubted highlight came in June when he went 7/7 at Ballarat to tip the card.
It's fair to say the RSN analyst ticked one of the bucket list after the feat, and now he has the Tipster of the Year gong to add to the mantlepiece.
Watch our interview with Brendan Delaney soon after he tipped the card at Ballarat
As we mentioned earlier, WA tipsters were well represented in 2021 and it was Chris Blackwell who had the best of it with 29% POT.
The OzRace form expert was on fire throughout the year, consistently bagging profit after profit.
Blacky deserves an even bigger wrap given the sheer volume of tips he entered - 550. That's nearly 100 more than anyone else in the top 10 rankings.
In fact, he finished top of the tree for most Cash Profit, reeling in a staggering $16K from $100 win bets on all his tips.
An incredible effort.
Gun NSW analyst Mitchell Hamilton was a whisker away from a podium finish in fourth place with 23% POT.
The Telegraph Racing expert steered punters into 60 winners at a very handy average price of $5.75.
The next Wester Australian cab off the rank was Terry McCormack, who finished in the top 5.
The McCormack New Year's Party must have been a good hit-out, considering Peter also finished in the top 10 with 15% POT.
It's no wonder bookmaking is in the blood.
| Tipster | Winning Tips | Cash Profit | |
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Chris Blackwell | 143 | $16,160 |
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The Sultan | 428 | $12,670 |
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Anthony Collins | 185 | $6,810 |
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Mitchell Hamilton | 60 | $6,570 |
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Brendan Delaney | 38 | $5,950 |
This measure ranks the highest cash profit using an even stake of $100 for all tips posted in 2021. It typically rewards tipsters who make a profit from a greater number of tips.
As mentioned earlier, Chris Blackwell was the standout performer in this category and thoroughly deserves his place on the summit.
However one tipster who also deserves a big wrap for his efforts throughout the year is The Sultan.
We collated a mind boggling 1,647 tips from the popular social media tipster throughout 2021, which is every tip he posts in the public domain.
He managed to reel in over $12K cash profit from this huge output, which is extraordinary considering he tips in pretty much every state around the country.
Race caller Anthony Collins flew the flag for the Sky Racing stable, delivering nearly $7K from his 544 tips.
Collins was a regular in our Tipster of the Month columns throughout the year, and finished off with a bang in December.
Honourable mentions
A few other media experts tipped up a storm in 2021, led by Brad Davidson.
The Sky Racing expert finished up with 17% POT for the year based on an even stake approach to his long game strategy tips, which ranked him in seventh in the top 10 POT category.
He finished one better in the Cash Profit classification, with his 332 tips delivering $5,660 in what was an accomplished display of tipping.
The final Sandgroper to get a mention is Terry Leighton, who flew the flag for racing network SEN.
The form expert bagged a stack of winners to finish with 16% POT for the year.
It was a bad year to be a bookie in WA.