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The latest news from Northern Monkey Punter.
New 2026 Flat Season Service Announced
1st April 2026
On the back of another profitable Cheltenham Festival, in which we made +35 pts profit during the week, details of my new 2026 Flat Season Service can be found on the 'How To Join' section of this site.
Memberships to cover the duration of the Flat season, through until 11th November 2026, are priced at £150 and I'd love to welcome you on board!
Full details of the service offering can be found at the above link!
Cheltenham 2026 sign up offer
4th February 2026
The 2026 Cheltenham Festival is now less than five weeks away so I am offering a sign-up offer to new/returning members - sign up for £45 to cover all bets through until 4th April 2026.
Our new AW system selections are flying and we've added +16 pts in January to the +21 pts generated in December - we're +37 pts up from 177 pts staked on the current service so far (+21% ROI). Recent winners are listed in the focus box on the side of this page but include Hitched (7/1), Knight Templar (11/2) and Dapper Gee Gee (8/1). We also landed a mammoth treble last Friday that returned 215/1 from 7/2, 7/1 and 5/1 winners (Doctor Khan Junior, Hitched and Three Non Blondes) on the AW :-)
Please find sign up details on the how to join link - membership is £45 for all bets from now until the 4th April 2026.
KING GEORGE CHRISTMAS CRACKER!
27th December 2025
This year's King George was considered to be one of the greatest renewals of the race, ever, with The Jukebox Man (7/1) coming out on top in a thrilling four-way finish. Ben Pauling's improving chaser was the strongest NMP fancy of the Festival period and members cleaned up when he registered a nose success, landing two winning multiples with Impose Toi (7/2), who won the Long Walk Hurdle at Ascot last weekend, and Idaho Sun (4/1), who landed the Formby at Aintree, also on Boxing Day.
To celebrate a hugely profitable weekend I am offering a membership sign up discount for the next week or so - sign up for £50 to cover all bets until 4th April 2026.
Things are going well on the 2025-26 NMP service and we are set to post a good profit this month, with the new AW system also continuing to churn out winning selections - Queue Dos (14/1 adv, SP 13/2) winning on Boxing Day was our latest double-figure odds winner.
The AW system selections are therefore showing +28 pts profit from 67.50 pts staked (average stake is 0.79 pts and the ROI is +42%) to advised stakes. You could potentially improve returns up to +60.89 pts (+70% ROI) if backing them to 1 pt win stakes. Many of the system winners are listed in the column on the right hand side of this page.Come join us as we move into the New Year and build up to the Cheltenham Festival in the spring, while continuing to churn out the winning AW system selections as well :-).
NMP WINTER/SPRING 2026 SIGN UP OFFER
26th October 2025
I have just put up details of a sign-up offer I have shared with members to take us through the winter and into the 2026 Cheltenham Festival. Cheltenham has been the peak month of our year for a number of years now and March is eagerly anticipated by my members every year.
Please find full details of this £75 sign-up offer on the NMP winter/spring 2026 sign up page. The offer covers all bets sent until 3rd April 2026, which is the date of the All-Weather Championship Finals Day at Newcastle.
We'll be betting on ITV televised jumps action and on the AW in the meantime.
Cheers
Wayne
NMP 2025/2026 Football Ante Posts - Now Live!
28th July 2025
My ante post bets for the 2025/26 football season have now been posted on the articles section of the website or can be accessed via the following link: 2025/26 ante posts.
Best of luck to everyone for the new season :-)
End Of Season Sign Up Offer
4th June 2025
With the Derby meeting at Epsom this week and Royal Ascot also looming I am offering a sign-up promo for membership for the rest of the 2025 season.A one off payment of £85 covers all selections until the end of the NMP 2025 service (30th November 2025) and represents a notable saving on the price of signing up on a recurring monthly membership (which is £22.50 per month).
Let's hope for a repeat of last year's Royal Ascot, when, among our winners, we backed a winning 87/1 double on Wathnan Racing pair Leovanni and Shareholder (who we also backed singularly in the Queen Mary and Norfolk at 10/1 and 8/1, respectively). Remarkably, Leovanni was a huge drifter on the day and returned 22/1 at SP, so some NMP members actually achieved even greater returns than that in reality!
We also orchestrated a monster gamble on Dark Trooper in the Wokingham, backing him at 25/1 weeks before the race. He was smashed up and went off 4/1 (SP) on the day but he was unfortunately beaten by his draw and finished a close second to Unequal Love. James Doyle described him as "the one that got away" that week....and we were undoubtedly unlucky from landing a mega chop as we had him covered in multiples with our other Wathnan Racing winners that week....but hopefully we can gain compensation this year :-) ...........
+40 PT FESTIVAL? MORE LIKE +140 PT FESTIVAL!!!
15th March 2025
In my last news update I mentioned that in three of the past four Cheltenham Festivals we have won over +40 pts profit over the course of the week, and I asked whether we'd be on for another big week.
Forget making +40 pts, we just made over +140 pts during a magical week in which we backed the following winners:
- Kopek Des Bordes (5/6)
- Lossiemouth (10/11)
- Haiti Couleurs (4/1)
- Stumptown (4/1)
- Marine Nationale (7/1)
- Jazzy Matty (13/2)
- Air Of Entitlement (16/1)
- Fact To File (6/4)
- Doddiethegreat (25/1)
- Jagwar (5/1)
- Kargese (12/1)
- Dinoblue (6/4)
- Inothewayurthinking 13/2 (and 2/1 w/o the fav)
- Wodhooh (13/2)
The highlight of the week was our MAX bet Kargese landing the County Hurdle. On top of the strong single, we also backed her in a 233/1 winning double with Doddiethegreat, who won the Pertemps Final at odds of 25/1 the previous day!
The week started a little slow for us with Majborough (on at 10/3, went off 1/2) turned over in the Arkle and State Man suffering a cruel last-flight fall in the Champion Hurdle, when he was set to romp home.
Luck evened itself out though and once the racing moved to the New Course for the final two days of the Festival, we made up for last time and ended up with 14 of the 28 winners, along with Inothewayurthinkin in the without the fav Gold Cup market.
We are now looking forward to the start of the New turf season in two weeks time. If you are interested in joining the service, please find the sign-up options at the How To Join page!
ANOTHER +40 pt CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL ON THE CARDS IN 2025?
17th February 2025
How was your 2024 Cheltenham Festival? Are you buzzing for the 2025 Festival, which starts three weeks tomorrow (and runs from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th March)? I am!
Northern Monkey Punter (NMP) members enjoyed an outstanding 2024 Festival with profit on each of the four days. For the third time in four years members made over +40 pts profit over the course of the week.
We had 16 winners last year (two of which were in w/o fav markets) and made +43.36 pts profit from 82.25 pts staked (the service's staking scale is on a range of 0.25 - 3 pts, with an average stake of ca. 0.75 pt).
The winners:- Slade Steel (5/1)
- Chianti Classico (8/1)
- Telmesomethinggirl (w/o fav) 13/2
- State Man (11/4)
- Ballyburn (4/1)
- Fact To File (5/6)
- Langer Dan (10/1)
- Grey Dawning (5/2)
- Protektorat (9/1)
- Teahupoo (15/8)
- Shakem Up'arry (10/1)
- Majborough (16/1)
- Galopin Des Champs (Evs)
- Absurde (10/1)
- Sine Nomine (16/1)
- Sine Nomine (w/o fav) (6/1)
Our fantastic 2024 Festival haul was far from a one off:
- In 2020 we made +40 pts NMP Festival profit
- In 2021 we made +40 pts NMP Festival profit
- In 2023 we made +20 pts NMP Festival profit
We're regularly backing a dozen winners of the 28 races across the course of the week and there is tremendous potential for multiple chop offs considering we've almost gone through the card on one of the days at past Cheltenham Festivals, twice!
In 2018 Summerville Boy (9/1), Footpad (5/4), Coo Star Sivola (10/1), Benie Des Dieux (9/2), Rathvinden (12/1) and Mister Whitaker (8/1) all won on the same day for six of the seven winners on the Tuesday. The only winner we didn't back was the odds-on Buveur D'air in the Champion Hurdle (4/6).
Three years later, on the Wednesday, we again backed six of the seven winners. Bob Olinger (5/2), Monkfish (7/4), Heaven Help Us (33/1), Put The Kettle On (12/1), Sky Pirate (14/1) and Sir Gerhard (4/1) all did the business. Tiger Roll in the Cross-Country was the only winner that evaded us - we were on the second, Easysland.
Our best day last year was the Friday as Majborough (16/1), Absurde (10/1), Galopin Des Champs (Evs) & Sine Nomine (16/1) all won in the Triumph, County Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hunters' Chase, respectively!
I am currently offering short and long-term membership sign-up options on my website: https://www.northernmonkeypunter.co.uk/page-how_to_join.html.
Both options represent great value. The NMP Cheltenham Festival results in the last five years surely can't be rivalled by many other services operating out there? I'd love to know of any that can better my record!
I work hard every year, and we've been rewarded. I've grafted my nuts off again this year and we are building up an exciting ante post book by the day at the minute - lots of work goes in during the lead-up as we prepare for the big punting marathon!
We back singles and multiples, ante post and on the day, at prices all across the odds spectrum - we've had winners like Sizing John (33/1) in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Indefatigable (Martin Pipe 40/1) and Heaven Help Us (Coral Cup, 33/1), as well as the shorties!If you are interested in joining me for another action-packed year I'd love to welcome you on board this week: https://www.northernmonkeypunter.co.uk/page-how_to_join.html
Cheers
Wayne
2025 NMP Service - Sign up offers
24th November 2024
Membership sign-up options for the 2025 NMP service can be found at the sign-up link.
Full season membership (1st December 2024 until 30th November 2025) is available with an early sign up discount for £225 and rolling one-month membership subscriptions are also available!
