Simply Horse Tips is simple, it just offers free horse racing tips. In fact it’s a chap called Dean, I believe. He tips for the East Anglian Daily Times and appears on the Racing Post NAPS Table which is pretty cool.

This profile is posting his own selections via his blog. And whilst I got distracted with my dislike for the name, something far more important is happening here. Dean is offering free racing tips and raising money for Charity.

As he points out on his blog, it’s simple (there’s that word again) and affiliate free. Respect. The blog has been going since 2015, with more than half a million views, including visits from Japan, New Zealand and Chile.

Dean has also raised over £1000 for three different charities through the sale of his Cheltenham Festival Preview Guide. Respect again.

On the website tips are shared with a sensible staking plan and insight behind each selection. There are paid services that don’t even bother doing this.

Dean is also a senior pundit for the website Racing Daily. I’m not sure how often his tips appear on that platform, or if they differ from his own selections on his blog, but it’s another feather in his cap.

There is a profit & loss page on the blog. At the time of posting this profile in early March 2026 (just before Cheltenham), Dean had netted a small profit for the year of +5pts.

Over the last 10 years, he has amounted an impressive profit of +782.65pts. However. There is another page on the blog called P&L Guidelines, which makes for interesting reading.

There’s two points I want to highlight. All each way returns are calculated using 1/4 of the odds. Why?

And…..this is the worst bit, R4’s are not taken into consideration when calculating returns. Sorry. What did you just say?

Now as someone that has settled a lot of results down the years, over 10,000 when this site was a tipster competition, I went out of my way to ensure the results were accurate, and calculating Rule 4 deductions was part of that. Trust me, they can be pretty hefty depending on how many NRs they are.

To have a tipster like this, who clearly knows his stuff, simply ignore Rule 4 deductions is “Simply” lazy and means the profit and loss highlighted on his blog are incorrect.

He justifies this decision by saying you should adjust the P&L by 5% on the final stat on the month, but in my opinion that’s not good enough. If you’re going to track your profit and loss, do it properly.

Although that said, the tips are FREE, so I’m going to give him some leeway.