Horse racing tipsters of the week 22 May 2018

The weekly stats on today's leader board have West Australian punter Sandgroper at the top of the pile after making a whopping $4,375 from $100 win bets on each of this tips. As he has demonstrated with his in insightful articles on TheGreatTipOff.com in the past, Sandgroper has a sharp racing mind, and is a true student of the sport.

With a prolific output of racing tips, it's always worth having a dekko at which horses he's putting his name behind. With an average winning price of $6 over the past 7 days, Sandgroper found a fair share of roughies amongst the 28 winners that he pointed out for punters.

This week's top media expert was not to be outdone on value. Boasting an average winning price of $7.19 from his nine winners, G1X racing form analyst Alex Marsh had punters salivating for his his regular articles at the popular racing site, after a run of four consecutive profitable days from the five days that he tipped.

What made punters even happier than the nine winners was that many of them were his best bets. Those followers that doubled up on the $100 win bets for Marsh's best bets found themselves in profit to the tune of $7,310 at close of business Monday night. Now that's a motza for a week's work. The Horse Racing Leaderboard set to 7 days shows this statistic when Actual Stake is chosen. 

If it's high strike rates that impress you then look no further than ex-jockey Sporty. With a total profit of $2,270 from the last 7 days, Sporty picked winners  from 58% of the bets he placed and found placings 80% of the time. How punters can produce this sort of accuracy is beyond us. Clearly there's something in the water up on the Gold Coast where Sporty reside.

Another big name who found himself in the top 10 profit  makers was esteemed Daily Telegraph racing journo and tipster Ray Thomas. With a total profit of just over two-and-a-half grand, Thomas was tipping winners at a very respectable average winning price of $4.37.

Unlike online tipsters, Ray Thomas' selections are made as far out as 60 hours before the first race jumps on race day in order to make editorial deadlines.  This means Thomas forfeits the luxury of assessing factors only available on race day, like track conditions, market moves and scratchings. This makes Thomas's hefty profit all the more respectable.