Hello, My name is Lee O'Hare.

I am a ex-jockey now turned professional tipster/gambler. Fortunately for me & my clients I am much more successful as a provider of quality Inside Information of horse racing in the uk than I was at actually riding!

My life in Horse Racing began at the age of 15 when I left School with no qualifications, at the time I knew my life would be involved around race horses and could not see the point in staying on at school. I was drawn to Newmarket in Suffolk the home of the race horse and of course Newmarket race course itself where both the 1,000 & the 2,000 Guineas classics are staged.

Working for some very shrewd racehorse trainers i.e: Mr. Alan Bailey, whom at the time trained for Terry Ramsden ( Business Tycoon - Big Time Gambler) no less & then moving on to Mr Ron Boss who knew his horses well and always got the best out of them. I suppose even at such a young age I soon realized that it wasn't necessarily had work that got you where you wanted to be in life but who you know was more important. Its a very true saying: "It's not what you know but who you know that counts".

Unfortunately as I got older I got bigger and of course got heavier, this was not good news for an inspiring "Want A Be" Flat racing jockey. The time had come to move on to National Hunt Racing (Jump racing), this suited me as it allowed me time to grow and put weight on without having to diet continually. So many Flat Jockeys & National Hunt Jockeys have eating disorders because of the unrealistic weights that the Jockey Club & their rules that Jockeys have to abide by.

I moved on to a smaller Racehorse Trainer, his name was Mr "Bunty" Bennett, (whom eventually became my Father in law) thats another story! He was another shrewd trainer with not so many horses, but again always got the best out of some cheap horses that he bought at the sales. This is where I was given my first chance as a National Hunt Jockey, I was know as a Conditional Jockey, this is the same as an apprentice jockey on the flat but with slightly different rulings.

You are given a 7Ib claim when you first start out, basically meaning that if you are riding a racehorse that is allocated 11 stone from the handicapper then you have to be able to ride at 10 stone 7Ib. This was not so bad, remember though that I would then have to carry my riding saddle complete with stirups, leathers, cir single and other bits and bobs that you need to saddle up a horse, and then of course not forgetting my silks and boots that I would ride in!

After taking all of this into consideration I would have normally been around 10 stone stripped naked, this would allow me to have around a 4Lb saddle which is not the biggest saddle in the world but I have ridden on much smaller, the smallest saddle I ever rode on was 1/2Ib!!! Hard to believe but they do make them that small, its like riding on a postage stamp!!

Well, time moved on and I started to get more rides some bad, some good, unfortunately when you get a bad one to ride on the National Hunt it normally means you are in for a hard fall! Something you have to live with being part of the Jump Racing game. After a few years with "Bunty" I moved on to a bigger and much more well known race horse trainer. Her name was Jenny Pitman More Info Here, If you live in the Uk, I am sure you would have heard of her, she had a very big reputation as being one of the best National Hunt Trainers of her time, unfortunately for me she also had one of the worst reputations for being very hard on her staff & jockeys!

Well I had countless rides for Mrs Pitman, whom I have a lot of respect for, she is now retired from training race horses and has become a author of fictional stories all about the exciting world of horse racing. Some of the better horses I rode in my time were horses like: Garrison Savannah (Won Cheltenham Gold Cup), Esha Ness (Won The Grand National - Void one that is!), Royal Athlete (Won the Grand National), Toby Tobais, Willsford, Wonderman, Indefence, Nathen Lad, Don Valentino, Toby Tobias and Princeful.

After many years of race riding the rides were drying up and I was starting to get too many bad rides, more bad than good, this only meant on thing, more broken bones, its a fact that a national hunt jockey will have a fall around 1 in every 10 rides, It seemed I was having many more than that! It was time to call it a day, I stayed on with Mrs Pitman as her Headlad/Assistant Trainer basically this means I was 2nd in charge.

This was a great move for the position I find myself in now, getting to know much more about the actual running of the race horse yard and getting to meet many more trainers and owners on a more personal level.

For some reason Newmarket has this drawing affect and I felt the urge to go back to where I had started, this I did and went to work for Mr. Brittain. If there was an annual prize for the most optimistic trainer in racing, it would be won by Clive Brittain. He never, ever thinks that a horse of his might be outclassed and consequently has made a habit of sending out horses at huge prices to be placed in the most high-profile races. Terimon, at 500-1, was second in the Derby in 1989 to Nashwan and it seems that the bookies and the punters have never learned to give a Clive Brittain runner the respect it deserves.

Again in the position as an assistant trainer I learned many things and got to know many people, I stayed with Clive for 5 years untill I was 30 years of age. The time had come to put all I had learned into practice, but not as a race horse trainer as many thought I would but as professional gambler/race horse tipster.

I earn much more from my knowledge of the racing game and the connections I now have than I ever would from training horses to win races. That is way to stressfull!