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TRIAL OVERVIEW
Quick Summary
Introduction
Templegate Tips is a free horse racing tipping service published by The Sun, with selections provided by Steve Mullen. In this review, I’m looking at whether the tips are worth following and, more importantly, whether they can actually make a profit.
Steve Mullen took over the Templegate role from Steve Jones, with his first Sun Racing tip appearing on 29th March 2021.
Templegate is a prolific tipster, often providing selections across several meetings and covering a large number of races each day.
That naturally raises a question about the selection process. Producing that volume of tips would require either a significant amount of research or some form of structured system for identifying selections.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any detailed information explaining how the tips are chosen, so there is a degree of uncertainty around the process.
I also couldn’t find any official results for Templegate on the Sun Racing website. That isn’t unusual for newspaper tipsters, but it does mean there is no obvious long-term record available to assess before following the service.
Putting it to the Test
For my Templegate Tips review, I decided to record my own results and see how well the tipster performed across a period of three months.
I reached 2,469 bets in total, with an average of 27 bets per day.
My results include profit and loss at the odds available on the day of the races, with all bets at 1 point level stakes on the race winner market.
The outcome was much more dramatic than I expected.
How Templegate Tips Works
The tips are posted daily on the Sun Racing website, usually late in the evening before the following day’s racing.
Bookmaker odds are displayed alongside each selection. These may be the best available odds at the time of publication, although this isn’t made clear.
- Time of tips: Evening
- Bet volume: Average 800 tips per month
- Advised starting bank: No advice
Trial Results
The results from my Templegate Tips trial were extremely poor.
I tracked the odds available on the day of the races rather than the prices quoted when the tips were first posted, as those were often published late in the evening.
The first month was a disaster, with £258.02 lost using £10 per point stakes.
From there, it only got worse.
By the end, I had lost a total of £3,407.62, or 340.8 points.
To put that into perspective, a £1,000 starting bank would have been wiped out more than three times over at £10 stakes.
Final Verdict
Templegate Tips may be free and widely followed, but the results from my three-month trial were extremely disappointing.
Across 2,469 bets, I recorded a loss of £3,407.62 at £10 stakes, equivalent to -340.8 points and an ROI of -13.80%. Based on those results, I would not recommend following Templegate Tips at the odds available on the day of the races.
The lack of any clearly published long-term results also makes it difficult to assess whether the service has performed better over other periods.
If you’re looking for tipsters with a stronger track record, you can check out our approved tipsters list here.
NOT RECOMMENDED
