Tipster

a “turf” agent who collects early and generally special information of the condition and racing capabilities of horses in the training districts, and posts the same to his subscribers to guide their betting. “The racing TIPSTERS have much le patronage than formerly, before “Geoffry Greenhorn” laid a trap for them, and published the tips he received in The Life . Profe or Ingledue, M.A., the mesmerist, is silent; and if their subscribers, ‘for whose interests I have collected my old and able staff, with many additional ones, who are already at work in the training districts,’ could only get a sight of the ‘old and able staff,’ they would find it consisting of a man and a boy, at work in the back room of a London public-house, and sending different winners for every race to their subscribers.”— Post and Paddock , by the “Druid.” There are, however, whatever non-racing men may think, many “touts” whose information is valuable to even the “best informed” writers.