Originally Posted by Big Dipper:
“Newspaper Tipsters - Cayton, once a tipster for the Morning Star, holds the unenviable record of selecting 54 losing naps in a row.”
Originally Posted by Terrence Chant:
“Odds-on 1/4 favourite should have been his selection one day just to break the sequence!”
Russian Hero - 1949 Grand National winner at 66/1. Cayton nailed this one (although working for a Communist newspaper there wasn't much else he could pick).
Cayton also topped the naps table 4 times, an achievement that must be considered a triumph for Marxist-Leninist tipping philosophy over that of the more bourgeois and reactionary newspapers of that time.