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Not had a winner for a while now (twice so far this month?) and made a loss in February. I know tipping outsiders is obviously difficult, but has his bubble burst considering his huge success in 2009?
Hardly…everyone goes through bad patches.
He is the best tipster i have seen….along with Segal
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Come off it, he is no Tom Segal.
Toms the greatest tipster we’ve ever seen and no one should be branded as good as him so easily.
Think Hugh Taylor might just be better on the level rather than over the obstacles.
But I am sure there are plenty tipsters who are good out there. At least 300 hundred regularly use this forum
Well well well, he’s come back to form with a bang, 33/1 winner today (although came right down to 12/1) – he does seem a lot better on the flat, will follow daily definitely.
But I am sure there are plenty tipsters who are good out there.
At least 300 hundred regularly use this forum
Including Hugh himself.
As been said, everyone goes through a lean patch, especially when tipping at biggish prices.
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Not being funny but I don’t know a pro punter out there who follows someones tips, these sort of marketing tools are just there to lure people into the sport and Hugh is doing a good job.
Thing is, Mr Wilson, Hugh (who’s had a great recent run) explains the rationale behind his tips, and I think it would be a foolish pro, although, admittedly, some seem to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of form, who don’t check out such tipsters.
In fact, no pro, myself, to put it mildly, I found it pays to have faith in his judgement re the horses you really have to go by his judgment on, because he gibbers about stuff only an expert race-reader watching the race would see. Not so much horses, whose cvs would impress me.
Not that I question your general thesis, a lot of the run-of-the-mill tipping clearly is a come-on for punters; kind of loss-leaders, except that there’s no value in them for the punter, and no loss for the bookies in the shortish, medium or long term. Bookies’ tips, often actually, but always metaphorically.
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Most professionals I know find Hugh and his ilk irritating, you find a value horse and price is gone within half hour because one of them has put it up – this only happens because of their share of the media at their respective companies.
I don’t see how you think Hugh’s form factor or Pricewises descriptive selections are going to be worth listening to unless you are a novice which is why they are given so much air time to draw in new people to the sport who find their angle of race reading extremely interesting and will try interpret that into their form reading along the line, in the future they tend to move away from aided selections to making a living themselves.
I understand and respect their job is very stressful and you’re only as good as your last bet but there are many of us who don’t have a guaranteed income to go by and unfortunately are losing prices.
Cant help feeling i would love to have a trade paper with simply the fields, form and betting with not a tipster in sight wont happen though.
The bloke is top notch imo. One of the very, very few in the racing media with anything interesting to say.
That said the prices quoted are a work of absolute fiction. I’m surprised ATR don’t get pulled up over them.
Hugh Taylor,Graham Cunningham and Matt Williams are all good "Tipsters" for want of a better word!These guys put the study in!Anyone prepared to dedicate hours of form reading and video watching can pick winners,the real skill is having an eye for a horse and seeing its untapped potential before everyone else! Have i mentioned
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Hugh is very good at doing what he is employed to do,it’s churlish to knock him.
Racing doesn’t belong to these so called "pro" punters,there are lots of people who follow and love the sport who rely on his tips to give them a bit of fun and take an interest.
Those who knock him are the elitist brigade who think they and only they have some deep ethereal knowledge of how the form book works,and a bit of value is theirs and theirs alone.
The man does a fine job.
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Hugh is very good at doing what he is employed to do,it’s churlish to knock him.
Racing doesn’t belong to these so called "pro" punters,there are lots of people who follow and love the sport who rely on his tips to give them a bit of fun and take an interest.
Those who knock him are the elitist brigade who think they and only they have some deep ethereal knowledge of how the form book works,and a bit of value is theirs and theirs alone.
The man does a fine job.
Don’t knock him.Are you his bodyguard by any chance.
cheers.
watch this space.
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