Mel Cullinan

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Mel Cullinan is sitting in for Tom Segal as Pricewise again this week in the Post.

He tips Arab Spring to win the big race at Haydock, 436 days after the horse last ran.

I have to say that I was slightly surprised that in support of his argument that Stoute can have one ready after a lay-off he cites the example of the trainer producing Shernazar to win at the big Goodwood meeting in...1985.

At least you can't accuse him of "recency bias" or of lacking historical perspective.
 
I initially was interested in him but he's too short now. I also think he's a 12f animal and have come round to Scottish at 9/4.
 
1985-quoting something that happened in 1985 in support of a theory regarding a race that's being run today is either lazy or stupid -most definitely not intellectual.
 
I'm surprised they're using Cullinan. He used to be the feature lead for the Weekender but so far as I could see specialised in the blindingly obvious and rarely moved outside of the first two or three in the betting. I never formed the impression he was particularly successful either. I always felt Paul Keely was the next Pricewise in waiting
 
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Kealy is superb, his Ante post he puts up for Cheltenham throughout the winter far outweigh what Tom Segal puts up although the last couple of years of the festival have been hard AP wise for any tipster.
 
Kealy is very good I agree. However like Tom he's so balls deep in handicaps and not specialising that imo he's a bit weaker in the group races.
 
fonz said:
Kealy is superb, his Ante post he puts up for Cheltenham throughout the winter far outweigh what Tom Segal puts up although the last couple of years of the festival have been hard AP wise for any tipster.
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I think Kealy is much better at plugging into jumps form anyway. I've always felt Tom struggles a bit, and is better on the flat (even if he readily admits he prefers jumps). Festival ante post tipping is becoming harder with the number of races there are now. You can easily lose 20% of your proftolio to other targets
 
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Euronymous said:
Kealy is very good I agree. However like Tom he's so balls deep in handicaps and not specialising that imo he's a bit weaker in the group races.
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I'd rather be onside with someone who can put me right about a handicap than someone who can discuss the merits of the leading two fancies in a Gp1 race. I don't think doing what Cullinan does is too difficult to be honest
 
I think Mel Cullinan was Pricewise - or whatever the equivalent was then - in the Post, when I first started watching racing.....though Henry Rix might have been knocking about for a while early-on.

To be honest, whenever I see tipster's names in thread titles, half the time I'm thinking it will be a sad tale of how said tipster is now a shuffling, skint, wretch. This is never actually the case, so does that suggest that 'successful' tipsters not only make it pay long-term, but they do sufficiently-well to extract a decent income from it?

I never use tipsters myself, which perhaps explains why I'm a shuffling, skint, wretch, myself.
 
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I suspect you're thinking of Mel Collier

I can't remember the name of the original Pricewise (used to know it). He admitted he basically built it around the advance tissues that Ladbrokes provided to the press before markets were formed in those days, and that basically Laddies were writing the column by proxy

If someone could give me the name I'd know yes/ no on recognition, but just can't recall it from my deteriorating memory (its not Rix though)

Without really knowing the economics of professional tipsters, I suspect a lot of them cover their risk by selling a service rather than relying solely on their tipping as income

Ah ..... memory restored. Mark Coton
 
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Definitely Collier I was thinking of (thanks Warbler) and Mark Coton also rings a bell.
 
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Mark Coton's book (hundred hints for better betting I think) was hugely influential to me as a novice punter at the time.
 
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