SMH Sydney Morning Herald Tips

The return of Group One racing on Saturday signalled the start of the Autumn Carnival. And rising to the occasion to start the carnival with a bang was the form guru at Sky Racing, Tony Brassel. Brassel's opinion has become one of the most respected in the industry over the years, and his latest results suggest his sights are as sharp as ever. On Saturday, where Brassel tips in every race at the four major metropolitan meets, he ended the day with a superb 104% POT.  Amongst Bras' 14 winners was the filly Lyre. Starting at juicy odds of $23.50 in the G2 Blue Diamond Prelude for the girls, the two-year old was having only her third career start. Brassel had clearly noticed something special in the Godolphin rising star, and she saluted accordingly.  Brassel's tips generated almost four grand of profit for $100 punters over the past week. Those who doubled-up on best bets posted by Tony Brassel cleaned up to the tune of $7,490. Tezzaraki is a name that punters are hearing a lot of since he joined theGreatTipOff.com. The pro punter has maintained a high strike rate of profitable days and punters are taking notice. This veteran punter from the beautiful Moreton Bay area of Queensland also had a big Saturday registering a phenomenal 397% POT at close of business on Saturday. Like Bras, Tezzaraki was able to find a ripper roughie - Taponisme at Riccarton in New Zealand which got home at odds of $55.80. But this wasn't Tezzaraki's only big winner on the day. After applying his local knowledge at Doomben he steered his followers towards the 20/1 shot Sword of Justice.  That extraordinary effort helped Tezzaraki top the weekly leaderboard for most profit using his stake. He finished making just shy of $9k, from 22 winning tips at an average price of $9.40 using an average $100 bet amount.  The theme of tipsters tearing it up on Saturday is continued by journo Craig Mordey.  Mordey works for SMH Sport, and only provides his tips for Saturday. But this solitary day's tipping was enough to get him into the top ten on the weekly leaderboard for most profit. Mordey made his followers $2,050 in profit, if they backed his selections with $100 win bets. With a huge 121% POT and an incredible 47% strike rate, he was on fire. This was no flash in the pan either. Mordey has had 4 profitable Saturdays out of his last 6. The sort of momentum that most punters would dream of coming into the Autumn Carnival. Another media tipster who is running hot is WA form expert Chris Blackwell from Ozrace. This sharp-witted West Australian found a huge pay packet of $6,710 for those who followed his tips and doubled up on his best bets. Applying the double-up staking method Blackwell finished the week with an astounding 143% POT, thanks to his 11 winning tips that came at an average price over six dollars.  But it's his consistency that will have punters getting excited. Blackwell has recorded a profit in 7 of his previous 9 tipping days. A great excuse for punters to extend their punting afternoon to include the races in the Wild West.

It's not often that greyhounds get mentioned in this article, but this week is a special case. That's because former NSW Greyhound Racing Board member and Fairfax editor Peter Davis, whose SMH articles were instrumental in preserving the NSW greyhound industry, proved that his judgement extends beyond the dogs to include horses too. With an astonishing 8 profitable days from his last 10, Davis' tips have earnt punters $1,870 from $100 win bets, representing 81% profit on turnover (POT).   However, even better than this was if you doubled-up on Davis' best bets, as we show for his staking plan on theGreatTipOff.com, you received a very tasty $3,380 profit over the last seven days. And at an average winning price of $5.21, nobody could accuse Davis of just going for the favs. What makes Davis's efforts even more notable is the fact that he's a newspaper tipster. To meet Sydney Morning Herald deadlines, Davis needs to get his tips in days in advance, limiting his access to race-day knowledge.  The stand-out performance from the punters this week came from veteran Melbournian, Danzak. With a huge weekly profit of more than seven grand, the sixty-nine year old demonstrated what a lifetime of racing knowledge gets you. The average winning price of Danzak's 25 winners was a whopping $15.48. These kind of results are no fluke, with Danzac backing up his May performance where he was awarded Horse Racing Tipster of the Month after making another seven thousand in profit. Brad Davidson from the Daily Telegraph and Super Racing deserves a mention for his big day at Warwick Farm last Wednesday. He tipped no less than 5 of the 7 winners on the card, earning anyone smart enough to follow his tips a huge 279% POT. Finally, Priscilla Schmidt was the undoubted Queen of the Punt in the Grafton July Carnival this week. Over the three race days, Schmidt tipped 8 winners for 62% POT. The popular ex-hoop earnt punters one and a half grand from $100 win bets, demonstrating once again the value of trusting the intimate knowledge that jockeys are privy to when it comes to horse racing. Get all the tips from these punters and members of Australia's racing media in the Horse Racing Tips Market.