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NMP CLOSING
7th November 2026
The turf season ended at Doncaster today and, after 17 years of running NMP, I have taken the decision to close the website down.
The last few years have been tough going and the service hasn't generated the profit I'd aimed for to justify running a tipping service.
The game has changed from the one when I first started the service in 2010 and with account restrictions and affordability checks changing betting for the worst, permanently, I don't see a bright future for horse racing.
To those who signed up along the way and shared my journey, I am eternally grateful for your support. You enabled me to fulfill my ambition of running an award winning (in its glory days) tipping service which opened doors to get me a tipping column in a national horse racing newspaper, playing at 'pricewise', and also, later, dabble in syndicate ownership.
Being a part-owner of a Royal Ascot winner in Dandalla and Mystery Angel, who was second in the Oaks, even as a minority syndicate owner, was just fantastic, and we backed both fillies (and the rest of the horses I was involved in) on the service and had some bloody good days.
Landing monster chop offs from NMP project picks like Withhold, The Shunter, The Tin Man, Dandalla and Bielsa will live long in the memory. Likewise those days at the Cheltenham Festival when we went through all but one race on the Tuesday card and all but one race on the Wednesday card, will never be forgotten. The Kenny Alexander double on Doddiethegreat and Kargese was also magical!
Sadly, more recently, such mega multis just wouldn't drop in for us, despite us having several lined up, so the time just feels right to walk away.
I will be closing NMP down imminently and taking a break from horse racing and tipping to focus on my full-time career.
My future plan is to publish an informal blog that posts up bets from time for time, most likely for football ante posts in pre-season, Eurovision, and major racing meetings like Cheltenham, but I no longer have a desire to run a tipping service.
Thanks, again, for your support over the years, and wishing you all the best.
Best wishes
Wayne
End Of Season Sign Up Offer
13th September 2026
Please visit the NMP sign up page for details of an end-of-season offer I am running - membership until the 11th November 2026 for £40!
HUGE TREBLE LANDED!
8th August 2026
Please visit the NMP sign up page for details of an end-of-season offer I am running. Members who signed up this morning re-couped their membership fee instantly as we banged in a 199/1 treble across the cards at Ascot and Redcar on Tuco Salamanca (4/1), Welbury (9/1) and Red Spells Danger (3/1).
With the Ebor meeting just around the corner at York, Doncaster's St Leger Meeting, Champions Day at Ascot, the Cambridgeshire and Cesarewitch meetings at Newmarket and the Breeders' Cup in America, among other meetings yet to be run, we've plenty of top-class action to punt on before the season is out!
