Originally Posted by Dancc:
“To be fair, most of the tips the presenters put up go on to lose. I was shocked in particular when Nick Luck tipped Cue Card to beat Sprinter Sacre on The Morning Line the other morning !
I like Graham myself, but John Francombe is missed. Jim McGrath is probably the best of the lot in terms of the C4 pundits and when he's not on The Morning Line I end up fast-forwarding through most of it.”
“To be fair, most of the tips the presenters put up go on to lose. I was shocked in particular when Nick Luck tipped Cue Card to beat Sprinter Sacre on The Morning Line the other morning !
I like Graham myself, but John Francombe is missed. Jim McGrath is probably the best of the lot in terms of the C4 pundits and when he's not on The Morning Line I end up fast-forwarding through most of it.”
It is a bit frustrating when people just dismiss these tips as "they mostly lose". Not that I watch for the tips per se but there is actually a thread in the Betfair forum which shows that if you follow all McGrath's tips you would have turned £6,820 into £10,439 which is some rate of return. Sadly, the others in profit are Francome, Cattermole, and Lesley Graham.
Cunningham has in fairness just landed into profit and the less said about Tanya Stevenson the better, her £9,965 would now be a desperate £7,054.77. The thread also shows that when it comes to tipping Simon Holt is a great commentator. Doubtless he keeps the better ones to himself.
Cue Card was one I did each way, I was surprised Luck tipped it to win as opposed to e/w, but I could see some logic at the price, at least it was over 2m 4f which was his distance.
It was nowhere near as bizarre at Cunningham's tilt at Cheltenham in December when he went with Sanctuaire to beat Sprinter Sacre, then on the same card he felt Grands Crus would stay over 3 miles on a glue pot having being found not to have stayed 2m 5f in better conditions the month before. I would oppose almost anything he suggests even odds on favourites.




