Telegram has become a popular way for horse racing and sports betting tipsters to send selections directly to followers.
The platform works particularly well for betting tips because messages arrive quickly, channels can publish selections before an event and subscribers can receive notifications on their phones.
The quality of Telegram betting groups varies considerably. A large subscriber count, screenshots of winning bets or claims about monthly profit do not prove that a tipster is profitable.
British Racecourses therefore assesses Telegram tipsters by looking at transparency, results history, staking information, available odds, consistency and the amount of useful analysis accompanying the selections.
This page covers established Telegram betting channels worth investigating, but we do not claim that following any tipster guarantees a profit.
Best Telegram Betting Tipsters in 2026
Some of the better-known Telegram betting tipsters and groups available to UK bettors include:
- David Dooley Tips: Horse-racing selections with free and paid Telegram options.
- Sports Betting Tipsters: Sports and horse-racing selections distributed through Telegram.
- Get Your Tips Out: Established racing tipping brand with Telegram channels alongside its wider racing coverage.
- British Racecourses: Horse-racing information, race analysis and selections from the British Racecourses team.
- Joe Norris Tips: Horse-racing selections distributed through Telegram and other channels.
- SmartPicksAI: Betting selections using an AI-focused approach.
- Tipman Tips: Subscription-based sports tipping service using Telegram to distribute selections.
We no longer rank these services from first to last based on unverified profit claims.
A tipster with the biggest advertised profit is not automatically the best service. The result depends heavily on the period selected, stakes used, prices recorded and whether followers could actually obtain those odds.
How British Racecourses Assess Telegram Tipsters
A credible Telegram tipster should make it possible to assess more than a collection of winning screenshots.
We look for the following factors.
- Complete Results: Losing bets should be recorded alongside winners.
- Clear Stakes: Results should show the staking method used.
- Recorded Odds: The price advised with each selection should be visible.
- Realistic Availability: Followers should have a reasonable opportunity to obtain something close to the quoted price.
- Long-Term Records: Several months of results tell you more than a particularly successful week.
- Transparency: Old selections and losing runs should not disappear from the record.
- Reasoning: Racing tipsters should ideally explain why a horse has been selected.
- Clear Costs: Paid services should state what subscribers are paying and what they receive.
- Responsible Claims: Tipsters should not suggest that profits are guaranteed.
The Advertising Standards Authority advises betting tipsters against implying that previous success guarantees future results. It also expects claims about previous winners and profits used in advertising to be properly substantiated.
That is a much stronger standard than simply trusting a Telegram screenshot.
David Dooley Tips
David Dooley provides horse-racing selections through Telegram, including free and paid content.
The service focuses heavily on racing and is therefore more relevant to British Racecourses readers than a general sports channel posting occasional horse-racing bets.
When assessing any paid David Dooley service, look at the complete results rather than individual winning days.
Pay particular attention to the advised odds, staking method and whether the prices remain obtainable after selections reach subscribers.
A horse can be a good selection at one price and a poor bet at another. Our betting odds section explains why the price is fundamental when assessing a bet.
Sports Betting Tipsters
Sports Betting Tipsters distributes betting selections through Telegram across horse racing and other sports.
A multi-sport service should be assessed slightly differently from a specialist racing channel.
Look separately at the results for each sport. A profitable period in football does not demonstrate that the horse-racing selections have performed to the same standard.
The same principle applies to individual tipsters operating within a larger service. Results become more useful when you can identify which selections came from which tipster and how each record was calculated.
Get Your Tips Out
Get Your Tips Out is an established horse-racing tipping brand that publishes racing selections through its wider digital channels, including Telegram.
For racing bettors, the useful question is not simply how many winners a channel produces.
Strike rate needs to be considered alongside price.
A tipster backing short-priced favourites can produce a high percentage of winners and still lose money. Another tipster can have a much lower strike rate while producing a positive return if enough selections win at larger prices.
This is why British Racecourses places more weight on a properly recorded profit-and-loss history than an isolated strike-rate percentage.
British Racecourses Telegram Channel
The British Racecourses Telegram presence gives followers another way to receive horse-racing information and selections.
Our approach is based on analysing the race rather than presenting a selection as certain to win.
Factors worth considering before backing a horse include recent form, race class, going, distance, course record, pace, draw where relevant, trainer form, jockey form and the available price.
Readers who want to assess selections independently can start with our horse racing form section rather than following any Telegram tip blindly.
Joe Norris Tips
Joe Norris publishes horse-racing tips and is associated with the Get Your Tips Out racing brand.
As with any individual racing tipster, assess the record over a meaningful period rather than concentrating on a run of recent winners.
Look for the original advised price as well as the eventual result.
This matters because popular Telegram selections can shorten after publication. A tipster’s recorded return at 8/1 is not necessarily representative of the return achieved by followers who could only obtain 6/1 or 5/1.
SmartPicksAI
SmartPicksAI approaches sports selections from an artificial-intelligence and data-led angle.
AI does not change the standard by which a tipster should be judged.
An AI-generated selection still needs a transparent record, an obtainable price and a sensible staking method.
Terms such as algorithm, machine learning and artificial intelligence can describe how a selection is generated, but they do not provide evidence that the resulting bet offers value.
Judge the results in exactly the same way you would assess a human tipster.
Tipman Tips
Tipman Tips operates subscription-based betting services and uses Telegram to distribute selections.
For any paid tipping service, subscription cost needs to be included when considering the value of the service.
A results sheet showing a betting profit does not automatically mean every subscriber made an overall profit. Subscription fees reduce the actual return the customer achieves.
The size of a suitable betting bank also matters. A £30 monthly subscription has a very different impact on someone staking £5 per selection compared with someone using £50 stakes.
What Is a Telegram Betting Tipster?
A Telegram betting tipster uses the Telegram messaging platform to distribute betting selections.
A typical channel publishes the selection, event, advised odds and sometimes a recommended stake.
Horse-racing tips might include:
- Horse: The selected runner.
- Race: Racecourse and off time.
- Bet Type: Win, each-way or another market.
- Odds: The price available when the tip was issued.
- Stake: Often expressed in points or units.
- Reasoning: An explanation of why the horse has been selected.
Some channels are completely free. Others use a free channel to promote a paid or VIP subscription.
Neither model automatically tells you anything about the quality of the selections.
Telegram Channel vs Telegram Group
Telegram channels and groups work differently.
A Telegram channel primarily allows the operator to broadcast messages to subscribers. This format suits tipsters because selections can be sent quickly to a large audience.
A Telegram group allows greater interaction between members and can include discussions around selections, racing and results.
Some tipping services operate both. A public channel may provide free selections while paying subscribers receive access to a private group or VIP channel.
The word “VIP” itself does not indicate quality. It is primarily a marketing description for restricted or paid access.
Free Telegram Betting Tipsters
Free Telegram betting groups can be useful because they allow you to assess a service without paying a subscription.
Do not assume that “free” means the channel has no commercial incentive.
A free Telegram betting channel may generate revenue through bookmaker affiliate links, advertising, sponsorships or by encouraging followers to upgrade to a paid service.
None of those business models automatically makes a channel unreliable.
What matters is transparency.
If a channel recommends a particular bookmaker repeatedly, consider whether that recommendation is driven by the available odds or by a commercial relationship.
Paid and VIP Telegram Tipsters
A paid Telegram service normally charges a weekly, monthly or longer-term subscription for access to selections.
Before paying, establish exactly what you receive.
Look at:
- Subscription Price: Know the complete recurring cost.
- Number Of Tips: Establish approximately how many selections are normally sent.
- Sports Covered: Check whether you are paying for racing, football or a mixture.
- Results History: Look for a meaningful record containing winners and losers.
- Staking Method: Understand how the published profit has been calculated.
- Cancellation: Check how the subscription can be stopped.
- Additional Costs: Establish whether separate VIP tiers or upgrades are promoted after joining.
Do not subscribe simply because a service publishes a screenshot showing a large winning accumulator.
Are Telegram Betting Tipsters Profitable?
Some tipsters will record profitable periods. That does not establish that every subscriber will make a profit or that previous performance will continue.
The calculation itself also matters.
Suppose a tipster publishes 100 selections at one-point stakes and finishes 10 points ahead. That gives considerably more useful information than saying the service produced “£1,000 profit”.
The cash figure depends entirely on the stake assigned to each point.
A £10 bettor would turn 10 points into £100. A £100 bettor would call exactly the same performance £1,000 profit.
This is why points and return on investment are generally more useful than headline cash-profit claims when comparing tipsters.
What Is ROI for a Betting Tipster?
Return on investment measures profit relative to the amount staked.
For example, if a tipster stakes 100 points in total and returns 110 points, the profit is 10 points.
The ROI is 10%.
This provides useful context because two tipsters can both make 10 points profit while taking very different levels of risk to achieve it.
ROI should still be viewed across a meaningful sample.
An exceptional week can produce an impressive percentage that tells you little about the long-term performance of the service.
Strike Rate vs Profit
Strike rate measures how often a tipster’s selections win.
It does not measure profitability.
Consider two simplified records.
A tipster backing short-priced favourites might produce 60 winners from 100 bets but still lose money if the average winning price is too short.
Another tipster backing larger-priced horses might win only 20 times from 100 bets but make a profit because those winners return substantially more.
Neither strike rate can be interpreted properly without knowing the prices.
This is one reason our how to find value in horse racing betting approach concentrates on the relationship between chance and price rather than simply trying to predict the winner.
Why Sample Size Matters
A handful of bets proves very little.
Random variation means even a poor tipping strategy can experience a strong winning run. A good strategy can also suffer a prolonged losing sequence.
A record covering hundreds of bets provides more information than one based on 20 selections.
Time matters too.
Results covering Flat racing, jumps racing, major festivals and ordinary meetings provide a broader test than figures taken from one particularly successful month.
Be cautious when a service continually resets its results or promotes only its latest profitable period.
How to Check a Telegram Tipster’s Results
Do not rely solely on the results summary produced by the person selling the service.
Where possible, record the selections yourself.
A simple spreadsheet can include:
- Date
- Selection
- Race Or Event
- Advised Odds
- Odds You Obtained
- Recommended Stake
- Your Stake
- Result
- Profit Or Loss
- Running Profit
After a reasonable number of bets, you will have your own evidence of how the service performed at prices you could actually obtain.
This is considerably more useful than relying on promotional graphics.
Why Available Odds Matter
The price published by a tipster needs to be genuinely obtainable.
Suppose a horse is tipped at 10/1.
If the price disappears immediately and almost every follower can only obtain 7/1, calculating the service’s results permanently at 10/1 exaggerates what subscribers could realistically have achieved.
The ASA specifically highlights the availability of advertised odds when assessing tipster claims.
For Telegram users, record both the advised price and the price you actually obtained.
Over time, the difference can become significant.
What Does CLV Mean for Telegram Tipsters?
Closing line value compares the price taken when a bet is placed with the market price closer to the start of the event.
In horse racing, prices can move substantially between a Telegram tip being published and the race starting.
If a tipster regularly advises horses at prices bigger than those available later, that can be useful evidence that the selections are identifying value before the market adjusts.
It still does not guarantee profit.
A horse backed from 10/1 into 6/1 can lose just as easily as any other selection. The significance lies in repeatedly obtaining a price that later proves bigger than the market’s assessment closer to the event.
Can Telegram Tipsters Delete Losing Tips?
Telegram allows channel owners to edit and delete messages.
That makes record-keeping particularly important.
A subscriber looking through a channel’s current message history cannot automatically know that every previous selection remains visible and unchanged.
If a tipster’s proof of performance exists only within a Telegram feed controlled by that same tipster, treat it as evidence worth examining rather than independent verification.
Taking your own record of selections removes much of this problem.
Winning Bet Screenshots Do Not Prove Profit
Screenshots are among the weakest ways to judge a betting service.
A screenshot can show that a particular bet won. It does not show:
- How many losing bets preceded it.
- How much was lost on other selections.
- Whether the stake shown is representative.
- Whether every follower received the selection.
- Whether the displayed price was widely available.
- Whether the screenshot belongs to the person publishing it.
A complete chronological record provides far more useful evidence.
Be Careful With “Inside Information”
Claims about “inside information” should be treated cautiously.
British horse racing contains plenty of legitimate information about trainer form, declarations, going, previous performances and market movements.
That is different from assuming somebody in a Telegram channel possesses secret information guaranteeing the outcome of a race.
No tipster knows the result of a legitimate horse race in advance.
Assess the reasoning and price rather than paying more simply because a selection is described as inside information.
Telegram Tipster Red Flags
Certain behaviours should make you investigate a tipping service more carefully.
Guaranteed Winners
Horse races and sporting events are uncertain. A service promising guaranteed winners is making a claim that should immediately be questioned.
Guaranteed Profit
No legitimate betting service can remove the financial risk from gambling.
Constant Winning Screenshots
A channel showing winners but never discussing losers provides an incomplete picture.
Results That Keep Resetting
Ask why the complete historic record is unavailable.
Unclear Stakes
A profit figure means little when you cannot establish how much was risked to achieve it.
Unobtainable Prices
Consistently recording returns at odds followers could not reasonably obtain can materially inflate performance.
Pressure to Increase Stakes
Be wary of services encouraging followers to chase losses or dramatically increase stakes after losing bets.
Endless VIP Upgrades
A cheap entry subscription followed by repeated demands for increasingly expensive premium tiers deserves scrutiny.
Anonymous Operators
An anonymous tipster is not automatically dishonest, but it becomes harder to establish accountability when you cannot identify who operates the service.
Claims Without Evidence
Terms such as “number one”, “most profitable”, “best in Britain” and “highest strike rate” require evidence if they are being presented as factual comparisons.
Should You Follow Telegram Tips Blindly?
No.
A tip should be treated as an opinion worth assessing, not an instruction to bet.
For horse racing, check the selection against your own view of the race.
Our how to analyse a horse race like a professional page covers factors including form, class, pace, going, distance and race conditions.
You may agree with the horse but disagree with the price.
That distinction is important. A horse you consider likely to win can still represent a poor bet if the odds are too short.
How to Compare Two Telegram Tipsters
Use the same criteria for both services.
Compare their complete results over the same period, total number of bets, points staked, points profit or loss, ROI, average advised odds and subscription cost.
Then consider how obtainable the advised prices were.
Avoid comparing one tipster’s best three months with another service’s full-year results.
A fair comparison needs equivalent periods and equivalent calculations.
How Much Should You Stake on Telegram Tips?
Do not automatically copy the cash stakes displayed by a tipster.
Someone posting a £500 bet does not know your income, betting bank or tolerance for loss.
Point-based staking makes comparison easier because the size of one point can be adjusted to the individual.
If you decide to follow a tipster, establish your betting bank and point value before the selections arrive.
Do not increase the value of a point simply because the previous bet lost.
Our bet calculator can help you check potential returns before placing a wager.
Telegram Tipsters for Horse Racing
Horse racing is particularly suited to Telegram because prices move and selections can be distributed quickly.
It also creates challenges.
A racing tipster with thousands of followers can influence the available price on less liquid markets. By the time many subscribers open their bookmaker apps, the original odds may already have shortened.
When assessing a racing channel, look beyond the winner count and consider:
- Advised Price: What odds were quoted?
- Available Price: Could subscribers realistically obtain them?
- Race Type: Does the tipster specialise in particular races?
- Reasoning: Is there genuine form analysis behind the selection?
- Results: Are winners and losers recorded consistently?
- Staking: Is the approach understandable and repeatable?
Readers wanting to make their own assessments can use our today’s racecards alongside a tipster’s selection.
Telegram Tipsters for Cheltenham
The Cheltenham Festival produces a huge volume of tipping content.
Be particularly cautious about judging a service from one festival.
A tipster can have an exceptional four days through normal variance. Another respected tipster can have a poor Cheltenham despite using a sensible long-term approach.
The quality of a Telegram service should therefore be assessed across a much larger sample than its results in the Champion Hurdle, Queen Mother Champion Chase or Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Festival performance is interesting. It is not a substitute for a long-term record.
Telegram Tipsters for the Grand National
The Grand National attracts many occasional bettors and an equally large number of predictions.
A single successful National selection proves very little about the long-term quality of a tipster.
Large-field races also produce attractive winning screenshots because successful outsiders can return substantial odds.
Judge the process rather than the publicity generated by one winner.
Are AI Telegram Tipsters Better?
There is no reason to assume an AI tipster is automatically better or worse than a human one.
What matters is the output.
An AI betting model should still be assessed through its complete record, sample size, prices, stakes and returns.
The same applies to services describing themselves as data-driven, algorithmic or quantitative.
Technology can help analyse information. It does not remove uncertainty from sport or horse racing.
Are Telegram Betting Groups Safe?
Telegram itself is a messaging platform. The existence of a Telegram channel does not verify the identity of the person operating it or the accuracy of their claims.
Protect your personal and financial information.
Do not send a tipster your bookmaker password, payment card details, or account security information.
Be particularly cautious if someone contacts you privately claiming to represent a channel you follow.
Check usernames and links carefully rather than assuming an unsolicited message comes from the genuine service.
Should You Pay for a Telegram Tipster?
A paid service needs to provide enough value to justify both the subscription and the betting risk.
Start with the record.
If you cannot establish how the service has performed, what stakes were used and what odds were advised, paying for access requires considerable trust without much evidence.
Then consider the economics.
A £50 monthly subscription costs £600 a year before a single bet is placed. Someone betting at small stakes needs a substantial betting return simply to recover the subscription.
A free service with transparent results can therefore provide better value than a paid channel with impressive marketing but weak evidence.
How to Test a Telegram Tipster Before Paying
Follow the service without betting for a period where a free channel is available.
Record every published selection, advised price and result.
This gives you an opportunity to see:
- How often selections arrive.
- How quickly prices move.
- Whether losing tips remain visible.
- Whether results are updated accurately.
- How long losing runs can last.
- Whether the style of betting suits you.
You can then make a more informed decision about paying for additional access.
Do You Need Several Telegram Tipsters?
Following more tipsters does not necessarily improve your betting.
Two services can tip opposite outcomes in the same event. Following a large number of channels can also produce so many selections that it becomes difficult to maintain a consistent staking strategy.
Choose services based on evidence rather than betting on every tip that appears on your phone.
If several respected analysts independently identify the same horse, you should still check the available odds before betting.
How to Join a Telegram Betting Channel
You normally need the Telegram app or access to Telegram through a compatible device.
A legitimate tipster will provide its channel or group details through an official website or verified social account.
Check that you have the correct channel before paying for anything.
Imitation accounts can use similar names, logos and profile pictures.
For a paid service, establish the subscription terms before sending money and make sure you understand how access and cancellation work.
Telegram Betting Tipsters FAQs
What is the best Telegram betting tipster?
There is no reliable way to name one Telegram tipster as universally best without comparable, independently verifiable long-term results. Look at complete results, ROI, odds availability, staking, sample size and subscription cost before choosing a service.
What are the best Telegram betting groups for horse racing?
Established racing-focused services include channels associated with David Dooley Tips, Get Your Tips Out, British Racecourses and Joe Norris Tips. Their presence on Telegram does not guarantee future profitability, so assess the record and available prices before following selections.
Are there free betting tips on Telegram?
Yes. Many Telegram channels publish free selections. Some are entirely free, while others use free tips to promote a paid VIP service or generate other commercial revenue.
Are free Telegram betting tips any good?
Price does not determine the quality of a tipster. A free service can provide useful analysis, while a paid service can perform poorly. Judge both using the same evidence.
Are VIP Telegram tipsters better?
Not automatically. “VIP” normally means access is restricted or paid. It does not prove that the selections are more profitable.
Can Telegram betting tipsters guarantee winners?
No tipster can guarantee the outcome of a legitimate sporting event or horse race.
Can a Telegram tipster guarantee profit?
No. Betting involves financial risk, and previous results do not guarantee future returns.
How do I know if a Telegram tipster is genuine?
Look for a complete results history, clear stakes, recorded prices, realistic claims and identifiable operators. Record selections independently rather than relying entirely on promotional screenshots.
Can Telegram tipsters delete losing selections?
Channel operators can edit or remove Telegram messages. Maintaining your own record makes it easier to compare the selections you actually received with the results later presented by the service.
What is a good strike rate for a betting tipster?
There is no single good strike rate because it depends on the average odds. A high strike rate at short prices can lose money, while a lower strike rate at larger prices can be profitable.
What does ROI mean for a tipster?
ROI measures profit or loss relative to the total amount staked. It provides more context than a headline cash-profit figure.
How long should I track a tipster?
A longer record containing hundreds of selections provides considerably more information than a few days or weeks of results. Sample size and the type of bets being placed both matter.
Should I use the odds quoted by a Telegram tipster?
Compare the quoted price with the odds actually available when you receive the tip. If the market has moved significantly, the original selection may no longer represent the same proposition.
Are AI betting tipsters more accurate?
Using AI does not prove that a betting service is profitable. Assess AI and human tipsters using the same results-based criteria.
Is it worth paying for betting tips?
That depends on the quality of the service, the subscription cost and the stakes you use. Include subscription fees when calculating your actual return.
Should I follow every tip?
No. You remain responsible for deciding whether to place a bet. Consider the race or sporting event, available price and your own staking limits.
Responsible Gambling and Telegram Tips
Receiving betting tips as instant phone notifications can make it easy to place more bets than originally intended.
Set your betting budget before joining a tipping channel rather than allowing the number of daily selections to determine how much you stake.
Do not increase stakes to recover a subscription fee or previous betting losses.
Do not chase a losing sequence because a tipster claims a winner is “due”.
A Telegram subscription does not turn gambling into an investment or source of guaranteed income.
British Racecourses betting content is intended for adults aged 18 and over.
Summary
Telegram is a convenient platform for receiving horse-racing and sports betting selections, but the quality of tipping channels varies considerably.
British Racecourses no longer considers claims such as “number one tipster”, “most profitable channel” or “highest winning percentage” sufficient without comparable evidence behind them.
Assess a Telegram tipster through complete results, advised odds, obtainable prices, stakes, ROI, sample size, subscription costs and transparency around losing bets.
David Dooley Tips, Sports Betting Tipsters, Get Your Tips Out, British Racecourses, Joe Norris Tips, SmartPicksAI and Tipman Tips are among the established names readers may encounter when researching UK Telegram betting channels. Their inclusion here should not be interpreted as a guarantee of profitability.
The most useful habit is to keep your own record. It allows you to judge a service using the selections and prices you actually received rather than the results subsequently chosen for promotion.
For horse racing, combine any outside selection with your own assessment of the race. Our horse racing form and betting odds sections provide a starting point for assessing the horse and the price separately.
