Johnny Ward

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tipped up his 1st winner today in ages man. what paper were you reading

i suppose u tink u should be writing for the post now since u tipped a few winners yesterday. sure JW is the irish pricewise. he gives a expert opinion on every race he analyse's and shrewd in running tips..

He wouldn't tip **** out of a bucket

jw a good sort.would talk to people and has a good handle on whats going on.his sun indo column very good

advising the outsider in a level-ball draw no-bet AH is hardy earth shattering stuff...

putting up KS to win his fifth KG IV is also pretty straightforward...except that the world & his mother saw that the 2/1 was wrong; and had already murdered the price...

and what would u advise him to do?put up the bets as lays?a winner is a winner.

the column is called VALUE BETTING

I expect value, not winners [a subtle, yet important distinction].

Putting up one of NH racing superstars' at a price that was available for a nano-second will look good on the level stakes profit tracker [at 3.0]...but is hardly much good to Joe Public now, is it?...

value can be 2/1 dont you agree?.1/2 can be value if the chance of it winning is 1/4.he has given lots of long priced ones.a lot better than some of the newpaper tipsters who just tip the fav as a matter of course.he has a genuine intrest in the game and it shows

Every price is value - it just depends on which side of the book you are on.

Not that I would follow a tipster, as rather strangely, I like to construct my own price tissues & exploit the biggest differentials cf. the market.

Although I had noticed the appalling run he was on in his RP column...

You are missing the point I am making in my last post re: price advised. Compare & contrast that to Steve Palmer's approach.

i dont think hes trying to pull the woll over anyones eyes re prices.?...i gather information before i bet and i read his column for a  good reasoned view on what he thinks of various events. hes often wrong but hes often right.thats all im saying

Johnny a good egg imo.

PUNCH, I AGREE THINK GOOD SEE NEW YOUNG FACE AN I LIKE READING HIS ARTICILES

I feel obliged to point out that 2/1 is freely available with Paddy Power. I would not be certain he will go off fav in the race never mind win.

Thanks for that Hemroid, thought your employers banned their genuises from the forums ?

Did your employer ban spellchecker?

j .ward is only human and doing his best in all honest (i hope), but all this negative banter must add more pressure to him, and thats not fair to him........... i don't think he's posted in a long time on his emi  username........ (has he others?)

he should be  let post on here in peace, and defend himself if need be, and all these 2 euro knockers  get a life.

time tells all imo.

He`s clearly in a in too  privileged a position for some posters.
It`s a tough job and I wouldn`t like to have my betting constantly under the microscope.
The stick the likes of p r i c e wise gets is completely ridiculous.
I`m pretty sure he hasn`t posted since he started that column. Maybe he was instructed not to, or maybe he`s changed his identity like some other fruitcakes on here. [smiley:crazy]
I did have one criticism recently where he jumped the gun and presumed the LOI was over when it clearly wasn`t.
Stick to the facts in future Johnny!

Ooops! ....clearly in too privileged ...

I always smile when critics are accused of 2 yo-yo punting.

Question for those defending JVW so - do you believe he has a conflict of interest in his work in (a) providing BF with Irish horse-racing tissue prices pre-race cf. (b) seperately advising punters to then back selections in Irish racing in the RP?

providing BF with Irish horse-racing tissue prices pre-race cf.
Excuse my ignorance but where can I find this?

It's mentioned as one of his occupations on his social networking site.

I imagine the process is that he supplies the prices, scaled to say 105%, to BF; BF racing traders then populate the win/place markets with same, using house money as the offer cash, via their own bots.

I hardly expect them to price-up using static offers, so robots make the most sense.

Am open to correction on the above, of course...but that would be my take on it.

giant makes a very valid point , i know i go  down to the parade before most races and consider myself a good judge of a horses fitness , yet even after lots of study and looking at them in the parade ring i get it wrong more often than not . so if people were scrutinizing my bets i would find it hard to justify the time and effort for the fiancial rewards i get . i've met johnny a good few times while racing and find him a good hard working lad and wish him all the best .

Always seemed an affable knowledgeable type of fella, His Sunday Independent column is good. Compared with some of the tipsters in the daily papers he is excellent. The guy in the Star just tips 2/5 favourites and suggests putting them all in a yankee ffs, better than that auctioneering guy on RTE also.

Very decent bloke. Steeringjob not sure he does the bf tissue prices any more.

I would love to know how much kieran o connell gets paid by the star. He got an award at leopardstown a few months ago for bein europes top tipster.

He wins that most years, it goes on number of winners tipped

That Europe's top tipster thing is a joke!! Who is he up against? Who keeps the statistics? And sure nobody else tips in races in Longchamp, Philadelphia Park, Saratoga and places like that, so it would be easy for him to nap the most winners!!!!

If he is such a good tipster why did he pull out of The Irish Field naps table??? I'll tell you why because he would only embarass himself in it!!!!

He wouldnt pick his nose!

well really gives a feck i wud just say half the 1s on here wud like to be in the same sistuation fair play hope the horse runs welland gud luck

Two great tips today!

workrider Joined: 29 Jun 02
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giant makes a very valid point , i know i go  down to the parade before most races and consider myself a good judge of a horses fitness , yet even after lots of study and looking at them in the parade ring i get it wrong more often than not . so if people were scrutinizing my bets i would find it hard to justify the time and effort for the fiancial rewards i get . i've met johnny a good few times while racing and find him a good hard working lad and wish him all the best .

hilarious post, u r sum jack as s

wonky is somewhat clueless. tries very hard to come across on the forum as though he knows something. god knows he posts enough drivel. great comedy value, i'll give him that

Donn had a good record with a value betting column and JW holding his own ( at min ) .

JW a really good guy has time for everyone and also very hard working just a young lad trying to make a living at what he loves,live the dream Johnny.

Not much wrong with Johnny's 10/1 winner of the last at Leopardstown today.

No journalist could ever be described as hard working. It is a job for sloths and layabouts.

What paper do you write for TGM?

^^^^^^ have u no badies to stop,  m  o  r  o  n

as much as i would love to digress with my western friend he is spot on !

I was in Mallow yesterday. I had a free bet from power's for a tenner which I couldn't use at the home course. There were only 2 or 3 races left at Leop and I asked his advice without having seen the Racing Post. Without hesitation he told me to back Flowers Of Spring.

Well done Johnny. Roll on Troytown Day!!

Lads he tipped up Shamrock Rovers to win the league at 8/1 after their bad start. Good call Johnny Ward.

Rocketfingers Joined: 20 May 10
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Lads he tipped up Shamrock Rovers to win the league at 8/1 after their bad start. Good call Johnny Ward.


I would give him loads of credit if he had not used his "weekly portfolio" column to talk through his pocket and slag off the players and manager. Not welcome in Tallaght in my opinion.

Answer my question first Hemroid

'Not welcome in Tallaght'

Humour is lost on some people.

In my experience, very few genuine sports pundits provide an updated record of their tipping. Eye Mall is one of the few and he's doing well by the looks of it. He'll never get Jamie Redknapp's job.

Johnny has unearthed a real dark one today

3pts Kauto Star

and itl win the same as a 1pt win on a 2/1  shot...gettit?!!?

yes I understand this concept Kavvie thanks. I also think Kauto will win and is probably a 1/2 shot, but I think 99% of the public can unearth Kauto as a possible winner. Lazy tipping

I wonder would the bookmakers lay JW his 3pts bet?

id imagine any bookie would lay french bred 10yr olds that fell lto all day on their seasonal reappearance at 4/6

wd JW

Well done on finding the Johnny Ward tip today.
If you followed the index in the paper today or how it guided you inside the paper, you would never find anything.

Good tipping from JW, i don't bet horses often but wanted a flutter on this race and nearly went for China Rock but went with Kauto in the end.

^ aftertiming[;)]

If he was still a 190 horse today was never going going to be a problem, even needing the run which he did. Although the Queen Mother is more prestiqous, the Ryanair looks the ideal race for Sizing Europe

*prestigous

Think I spelled it wrong again, feck it, good to see Kauto back anyway

he can go down the Imperial Commander route via the Ryanair...

Did you notice Johnny's two winners in Thurles today thatsurcoco including a 7/1 winner. Looks like you will have to swallow some humble pie !!

if it was The Hurl, it was returned at 8/1...

Helped in no end by the jolly going for a duck...

ya spotted that ducky.did you not notice he napped sizing under spotlight too.gary o brien tipped up hourigans too. At last johnny putting a couple of points on instead of that half point.well done johnny keep up the good work.any sign of your friend jimeen on forum lately ducky?

he probably ask the voice of ireland for a bit of advice today with false messenger any mug can tip an odds on!

in all fairness the voice is savage at his job.wonder how johnny is doing in naps table in field

sher tom weekes prob in front of him![:D]

Who is Tom Weekes??

in the irish field on nov 13, " the naps table"

johnny ward  7 wins from 31    +2.83

gary o brien 4 wins from 35    -18.36

EMI's disappearance from the forum a more telling blow than the IMF arriving on these lovely shores.

When I blindly followed the Voice in the tipping competitions I always ended up in profit. Another excellent race reader imo.

Any word on Operation Houdini. I thought the Troytown was his next port of call.