Templegates Horse Racing Tips have been in the Sun newspaper since I was a boy, but that doesn’t mean he is worth following. I would go as far as to say that following his tips is a bad move.
Steve Mullen, aka Templegate, is a well-known tipster in horse racing journalism.
Writing for The Sun newspaper, he has forged a niche as one of the UK’s most well-known and followed horse racing tipsters. His daily column, located in the paper’s sports section, offers daily betting tips and insights into the day’s racing.
Horse racing punters across the UK buy the Sun newspaper for the racing section and Templegates Tips.
Why Templegate’s Tips Fail Long-Term
But why? You may ask, well Templegate gives a selection for each race at every meeting every day there is racing, which means he is tipping around 30-60 horses a day, depending on how many races there are.
Some quick maths would mean you would be placing over £30 worth of bets a day, so that you don’t miss out on that one day when he does well. Templegate to my knowledge, has only ever won big once or twice in the last 30 years plus.
Big Losses
From February 2019 to January 2020, Templegates horse racing tips would have netted you a net loss of 13.26%, and in that 12-month period, there was no winning month percentage-wise; every month was a loser.
Templegates tips are also often favourites, so there is limited value in backing anything he tips up.
Honestly, Templegate is the worst newspaper horse racing tipster I have ever come across. How he can even call himself a tipster, I don’t know. He never wins in the long run!
So to summarise.. don’t use Templegates tips because..
- Too many tips each day for each meeting
- Proven not to profit across the year
- Many losers
- Huge bankroll to follow each tip, so you don’t miss that winner
- Rarely picks a high-priced horse
- Favourite lover
Who Should I Follow Instead?
You should certainly take a look at the horse racing tipsters that I have reviewed over the last few years. I have found some really good ones at that time, and I use them myself even now.
I base my reviews on ROI (return on investment), which means whatever you stake and what you get back. Many good tipsters are in the 20% region, meaning for every £100 you bet, you would average £120 back.
Long-term profitability is the only solid thing a horse racing tipster needs to provide, and Templegate’s tips do not do that. I am afraid most newspaper tipsters are plain rubbish.
Alternatives
One service I suggest you take a look at is Tipstrr and Tipsters Empire.
Tipstrrr is free to join and use tons of tipsters without paying a penny, their selections are recorded in real-time, and their results too.
Tipsters Empire has several horse racing tipsters, and I am fully confident that if you joined those and compared them to Templegate after a few weeks, Tipsters Empire would be way out in front.
You can get a 28-day trial of their services for £2.99 (the price of 10 Sun newspapers), it will be the best few quid you have spent.
Premium horse racing tipsters offer you
- Long-term profit
- Quality write-ups and reasoning on why they have chosen that particular horse
- Staking plans and betting advice
- Big-priced winners
- More fun
and not loser after loser like Templegate’s tips.
So, Please Avoid Newspaper Tipsters
Avoid them like the plague, you get what you pay for, and newspaper tipsters tend to use the stick-a-pin approach to picking their so-called NAPS.
But if you want to follow them, you can get Templegate’s horse racing tips tomorrow at the suns website.
Visit the professional tipster’s section to find some tipsters that are guaranteed to outperform your newspaper tipster.
Thanks for reading, and I hope I have saved you the pain of backing 30-plus losers a day by following the newspaper.
