Retired jockey Libby Hopwood has made over $20K on OnlyFans with racy racing tips

It’s a different type of ‘Nature Strip’, but former jockey and Sky Racing form expert Libby Hopwood reveals all ahead of this year’s Everest Day with her top tips for success.

Former jockey and form expert Libby Hopwood is for the first time revealing her racing tips outside of OnlyFans.

After joining the adult platform several months ago, Hopwood told Confidential she has already made upwards of $20,000 sharing her “rider’s perspective”, while in lingerie.

“I’ve been mildly obsessed with collecting lingerie for years,” she said.

“My collection started when my first long term partner complained I wasn’t sexy enough.

“As a young woman, I thought I could fix it with lingerie by stepping into a different persona. I have over $30,000 worth, so it’s good that it’s finally earning its keep.”

Australia‘s hottest racing tipster Libby Hopwood. Picture: Monique Harmer

She is heading up a massive punt club syndicate that will place up to $300,000 in bets for the world’s richest turf race, The Everest, on Saturday.

Hopwood’s decade-long riding career saw her race 300 winners and make $5 million, before she was forced to retire due to a career-ending fall in 2014 at Murray Bridge in South Australia.

Hopwood says she evaluates form from a rider’s perspective. Picture: Monique Harmer

“In that fall, a friend of mine passed away. I had a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), I broke my collarbone and shoulder blade, fractured a rib and punctured a lung. One of the other jockeys retired afterwards because he couldn’t make sense of how we were able to walk away, when Caitlin (Forrest) didn’t.”

“I still have fatigue issues, but have worked out ways to manage that. I still go through times of feeling like ‘why am I giving myself so much to racing, when it can be a cruel beast that spits people out?’ It’s the love of it.”

Hopwood created an OnlyFans account as a side hustle to her day job, which is giving racehorses electromagnetic field therapy.

“Racing’s been in my blood. It’s what I know and it’s what people know me for, so I thought why not combine the two?” she said of the career switch up.

The former jockey has earned thousands of dollar sharing her riding tips with OnlyFans. Picture: Monique Harmer

“I feel like I’m still a part of the team without being able to ride them anymore.”

Despite the connotations attached to the platform, Hopwood said she’s been spoken to more respectfully on it, compared to Twitter when she worked for Sky.

“It’s been an eye opening experience. I’m very forthcoming in what my rules are (nothing triple XXX, she doesn’t fully undress), and everyone’s pretty happy for that, happy for the tips, and happy for a bit of flirty fun along the way.”

Thus far, the income hasn’t been “life changing”, but it’s certainly more than she anticipated.

Hopwood will be at The Lords Robert Hotel in Darlinghurst on Saturday. Picture: Monique Harmer

“My biggest concern was putting my naked bum on the internet and making $50, and we’re past that,” Hopwood said.

Her pick for Everest is “absolute superstar” and defending champ Nature Strip.

“He did have quite a few things that I didn’t like about him as a youngster. I would describe him as the rugby jock,” she said.

“Everybody would tell him how good it was, and it would get to his head and he’d do stupid things. But he’s grown up a lot.”

However, she believes Lost and Running, Private Eye, and Masked Crusader are in with a chance. In what is going to be “an interesting tactical race”, those horses “are perfectly poised to knock him off.”