We were just about coming to the end of our trial of Trident Racing but before we could wrap up our review in the normal way, we have been forced to do so anyway as it appears the service has been discontinued.
We have not received any tips since before the covid-19 break and the service is no longer listed on the WAP Tipsters website, so it looks like the writing is on the wall.
They were 38 points down for our trial to advised prices, so were struggling to make the grade in any event. However, with the service no longer operational it is a clear FAILED/DEFUNCT rating from us.
As we say so often in this game, it is very tough to make a long-term profit and only a very select few elite tipsters can do so. Countless tipsters fail to make it and fall by the wayside. This is another such tipster unfortunately.
A similar picture at Betfair SP with 11 points lost since our last update and 49 points lost for our trial overall.
The BHA are apparently making plans for UK flat racing to recommence on 1st May behind closed doors with jumps racing to return on 1st July. How viable these plans are remains to be seen but it would be good to see racing back next month, presuming it can be done safely of course and with all the correct health procedures in place.
At Betfair SP they are also moving along steadily, with 10 points profit made for our trial so far.
Just a note to say that there was some kind of issue with the e-mails so we didn’t start receiving tips until 25th October rather than 10th October when our review was set up.
In any event all is working well now and as we say the results have started in a positive fashion.
We have just come across a new tipster platform which looks quite interesting called WAP Tipsters.
They have a number of tipsters across various sports including golf, horse racing and greyhounds.
To start off we are going to take a look at one of their horse racing tipsters, Trident Racing.
We often say the most significant factor when looking at a tipster is their longevity and this one has been around for quite some time – over five years in fact having started up in 2014.
Since then they have made an impressive 750 points profit at a very respectable ROI of 16% and with a strike rate of 22%.
The tips are provided by a guy named Rob who is 53 and lives in Scotland with his wife and two children, but is originally from Surrey.
He has been betting on the horses for over 25 years and got into racing around age 12 listening to his dad place bets on the phone.
After falling ill in the 1990s Rob started logging horse racing results along with the stats about the individual horses and was finding he was having very good results.
Since then he has honed his skills and now selects mainly handicaps and pattern Races, narrowing the fields down to 2-3 runners if possible and watching replays of past races.
He doesn’t select odds-on shots and always look for value, generally looking above 9/4 selections.
The long-term profit graph looks very good so we are looking forward to get a trial of this one underway. We will update results here during the review so you can see how things are going.
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Speedform is a speed and form ratings service for UK horse racing.
Ratings services are a longstanding feature of horse racing and provide a way for punters to compare horses based on a range of factors and to see how they line up for a race today. Ratings platforms such as Timeform and Raceform have been around for many years and proved popular with aspiring punters. Speedform focuses on the metric of speed but utilises other factors in its ratings calculations too.
The Speedform ratings service is pretty simple to use and after signing up you get access to the daily ratings and their key metrics.
We followed the ratings for just under three months, using a strict criteria:-
– Backing the top rated SF (the speed rating) horse when the rating is clear by 5 points – Odds between 5.0 and 26.0 at BSP – Only horses that have run within the last 30 days
We weren’t able to follow the ratings every day due to other commitments but that was OK, they are not “tips” as such so you can use them as and when you are able to.
Using the above criteria we did struggle however, finishing with a loss of 76 points after around 300 selections.
In this instance we don’t feel it is appropriate to give a final “verdict” as such as there are multiple different ways you can use the ratings and we only tested one, so people using different strategies may have done better than us. But at the same time based on using the criteria listed above we couldn’t recommend the ratings at the moment either.
We would like to see an option for e-mail selections to be sent out if you select certain criteria as that would make things much easier and user-friendly, so we hope such an option is added in future. It would also be useful to run various strategies in a “test mode” to see if they work and to find optimal use of the ratings, which at the moment would all have to be done manually.
Anyway, as we say we aren’t able to give a definitive verdict on the Speedform ratings for now but unfortunately using the criteria described above we did finish with quite a considerable loss for our trial.
Speedformis a ratings and form guide service for UK horse racing based on speed ratings. We have been following the ratings for just over two months now, using a strict criteria:-
– Backing the top rated SF (the speed rating) horse when the rating is clear by 5 points
– Odds between 5.0 and 26.0 at BSP
– Only horses that have run within the last 30 days
We haven’t been able to follow the ratings every day due to other commitments but that is OK, they are not “tips” as such so you can use them as and when you are able to.
It’s been a rough time recently though, with 49 points lost since our last update a month ago.
That means we are now 57 points down for our trial overall.
Speedformis a ratings and form guide service for UK horse racing based on speed ratings. We have been following the ratings for just over a month now, using a strict criteria:-
– Backing the top rated SF (the speed rating) horse when the rating is clear by 5 points
– Odds between 5.0 and 26.0 at BSP
– Only horses that have run within the last 30 days
We haven’t been able to follow the ratings every day due to other commitments but that is OK, they are not “tips” as such so you can use them as and when you are able to.
Anyway, so far we are 8 points down to 1-point level stakes.
We have something a little different for you today here at Honest Betting Reviews.
We are taking a look at a service called Speedform, which is a speed and form ratings service for UK horse racing.
Ratings services are a longstanding feature of horse racing and provide a way for punters to compare horses based on a range of factors and to see how they line up for a race today. Ratings platforms such as Timeform and Raceform have been around for many years and proved popular with aspiring punters.
One aspect of ratings which has grown in ubiquity is rating horses based on their speed. In simple terms this means recording the time it takes for a horse to complete a race of a given distance and comparing it to the time taken by other horses to complete the same distance.
Speed ratings are largely an American idea, popularised by Andrew Beyer in a number of very technical and in-depth books, the most famous of which is Beyer on Speed.
Although not exactly a light read which you’d take with you on holiday, Beyer’s seminal work explained in great detail how the speed of horses is a very important, but largely overlooked, factor in horse racing. Speed ratings demonstrated they could be very profitable if used in the right way and therefore become very popular.
The Speedform website explains the value of speed ratings quite well:-
“Most casual punters will simply look at the finishing positions of the horses in a race to determine the likely winner, but this often does not tell the whole story….
For instance, say we have a 7f race at Kempton, Horse A won it’s last race and Horse B came 4th, both over the same course and distance as today and carrying the same weight, Horse A is the obvious winner right?.
Wrong. Because if we look at the speed ratings the horses achieved in those races, Horse A achieved a speed rating of 86 compared to Horse B’s rating of 91, which means although Horse A won it’s race, that race was run in a slower time than Horse B’s race, so although Horse B only managed to come 4th, it covered the 7f in a quicker time, so all other things been equal Horse B should beat Horse A today.”
Just using speed ratings on their own isn’t a surefire way to success of course, but when used in the right context and in combination with other form factors, is a potential way to gain an edge on other punters.
What really piqued our interest was the past results on the website, which show for instance:
– 581 points profit (BSP) from 2849 runners (ROI: 20%) for backing horses to a given criteria
– A profit of 95 points (BSP) from 546 runners (ROI: 17%) when backing at odds of 4/1 or less in given criteria
– A lay profit of 731 points (to early prices) to a morning price of 6/1 or less when laying to certain criteria.
So very strong results there and well worth investigating further to see if they hold up in a live trial.
With a ratings service like this of course it is all about how you use the ratings, so people will get different results depending on how they use the ratings.
What we will aim to do is give an overview of the service and then also provide a sample of results from following the criteria that gave the 581 points profit at BSP mentioned above (which was over about an 18 month period).
So we will kick off a review today and will report back soon on how things are going.
We have finished taking a look at Caan Berry’s Pre-Race Trading Guide and would like to provide a summary of our thoughts below.
Trading guides and courses tend to be difficult to give definitive ratings on as it can depend so much on how you use the information, your own discipline and skill and so on. However, we will go through each aspect of the guide and provide our thoughts so you have a better idea of what it’s all about and then give our overall verdict on it.
Who Is Caan Berry?
Caan Berry is one of the most famous Betfair traders. Having previously been in the army, Caan turned his attention to Betfair in 2009 and spent a great deal of time and effort learning how to trade effectively.
Having done so he apparently became very successful at it and went on to be featured on Betfair Learning, Betdaq Tips, BBC Radio 4, and in 2014 was featured by Betfair for their ‘pro traders’ campaign as well as being a recognised figure on the Betfair website. Mr Berry has also published a renowned book on sports trading. He currently has his own website featuring four trading courses, one of which is this is Pre-Race Trading Guide.
What Do You Get With the Guide?
The Pre-Race Trading Guide comes in four main parts:-
– Basics – Correct Setup
– Main Guide
– Example video
– 2 x bonus videos
Looking at each of those in turn you have:-
1. Correct Setup
This part of the guide is in video form and shows you how to set up trading software from scratch. Caan uses Geeks Toy and goes through his own settings on that platform together with why he uses those settings. This section of the guide is useful for seeing exactly which menus, graphs and features Caan uses to help his trading and is certainly worth paying close attention to. You will also need to understand this for a lot of the information in the main guide to make sense.
Caan even provides a settings zip file you can download and copy into your software which is very helpful, although as we say understanding why he uses those settings and what they mean is also important.
2. Main Guide
The main guide comes in the form of a 118 page document available to read within the website. It is a very comprehensive and detailed document and it will probably take a few readings to really grasp and understand everything in there.
In essence the guide covers how you should approach trading the pre-race markets and what to look for. This covers everything from:-
– How markets move and what affects them
– Things to watch for on TV (and how they affect the pre-race market)
– What times are best to trade
– What races are best to trade
– What style of trading is best suited to different types of race
– Which days are best to trade
– Price ranges and tick sizes
– Price-volume relationship
– Tools to use
– Live shows and TV channels
– Mentality, discipline and stakes
– Resistance points
– Trainers and jockeys
There is much more in the guide but those are some of the main themes. Essentially there isn’t a single strict methodology or set of rules to follow, it is more of a set of guidelines and advice and trying to help people understand how markets move and setting you up to potentially profit from them.
3. Example Video
There then follows a video showing an example of Caan trading a particular type of race and where a particular jockey/trainer combo often leads to moves in the market. Caan makes £21.20 on this trade on Geeks Toy.
4. Two Bonus Videos
Finally there are two extra videos, one covering another example of Caan trading a race before the off on Geeks Toy – this time more of a scalping opportunity rather than a swing trade and the other video covers mindset and discipline.
Our Thoughts on the Guide
As we said at the start, it is often difficult to give definitive verdicts on trading courses because unless they provide a very strict methodology for trading – e.g. when these conditions are met, do this, then do that, etc – everyone will get different results depending on how much time they put in understanding the information, how much discipline they have whilst trading, their own aptitude for it and so on.
This is certainly one of those courses that is more about guidelines and advice than a strict methodology. We would make an analogy to someone teaching you to fish – it is more like you are being given advice on what equipment to use, which rivers are best, what time of day to go, what to look for, which type of fish to focus on and what makes a good fisherman. It is up to you though to take the time to practice, learn and perfect the art of doing it consistently and make a success of it.
The advice in the guide is very sound and logical and you can see that Caan understands markets very well. The things to look out for from a racing standpoint all make sense and should be things anyone with a reasonable knowledge of racing can follow.
In terms of the actual trading examples and discussions, this is not for complete beginners and if you haven’t traded before we would recommend some beginners courses available on YouTube (e.g. Bet Angel have a good intro course) so you understand things like how the ladders work, how to put an order in, execute a trade etc. For regular traders it should be fairly straightforward to follow though.
One of the aspects discussed in the guide is the prevalence of certain jockeys and trainers to be gambled on and be good for trading, so it could benefit from listing those a little more comprehensively or at least point customers towards where they can find such info.
Other than that though we think this is a very sound guide and is definitely good value at just £45 when you consider some of the exorbitant and frankly ridiculous prices some people charge for trading courses these days.
Will it turn you into a successful trader and enable you to make a consistent profit? Well we couldn’t say that for sure, much of that will be up to the individual and how they choose to use the information. But we would say it is one of the better trading guides out there and well worth checking out if you want to learn from one of the best in the business and improve your pre-race trading.
One of the most famous Betfair traders is Caan Berry. Having previously been in the army, Caan turned his attention to Betfair in 2009 and spent a great deal of time and effort learning how to trade effectively.
Having done so he apparently became very successful at it and went on to be featured on Betfair Learning, Betdaq Tips, BBC Radio 4, and in 2014 was featured by Betfair for their ‘pro traders’ campaign as well as being a recognised figure on the Betfair website. Mr Berry has also published a renowned book on sports trading.
Given his excellent reputation, we thought it would be a good idea to take some time looking at Caan’s trading courses and to see what we could learn.
There are a few different ones to choose from, but we are going to start with the Pre-Race Trading Guide, which costs £39 and comes with:-
– Where to begin, how to get set up
– The understanding behind market limitations and characteristics
– How to best interpret streaming information and indicators within a live market environment
– Influencing forces and factors that cause market movement
– The 7 stages to market formation
– How to identify profitable situations, ready in anticipation to squeeze as much profit from them as possible
– Where to anticipate potential threats and dangers, avoiding them before they develop
– Practical methods to maximise trading efficiency
– Which tools are most helpful to read the market and why
All of which sounds pretty good and we are looking forward to checking this material out. Will it turn us into professional traders? Who knows, but hopefully there will be enough in there to point the way towards profits, which is all you can ask for really.
So we will get the review underway and will report back in due course on how things are going.
Pay Per Profit is a horse racing service from the PuntHub stable of tipsters and they take a different approach to the typical subscription model whereby you pay a monthly or quarterly membership fee.
Instead they use a “Pay Per Profit” model. What this means is you pay £25 (in advance) for each 15 points profit they make – referred to as a “cycle” – regardless of how long it takes. If you were staking at just £10 per point that would mean you were paying £25 for each £150 of profit made.
We have been following the service for very nearly a full year now and things started off very well, with four cycles of profit being completed in the first four months.
So that added up to 71 points of profit in pretty quick time and things were moving along very smoothly.
Then a new cycle started on 24th June and unfortunately…it is still going!
Yes a full seven months later we are still bogged down in the same cycle and are 46 points down for that Cycle.
So we thought it was probably time to wrap up this review as we could have ended up waiting forever to complete the Cycle!
Whilst it has been disappointing to have been stuck in a rut for a while, the service still made a profit of 24 points for our trial overall.
Taking into account the length of time of the trial and total subscription costs, we think in the end a NEUTRAL rating is fair in this instance.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are sent out via Telegram and come in at various times on the day of racing. With an average of just 1 bet per day it’s a very simple service to follow.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any real pressure on prices and indeed the BSP results were pretty similar to those at advised prices, with 12 points being made at BSP versus 24 points at advised prices.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 35% (including placed horses) which is pretty good and meant the losing streaks did not tend to be too long.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t find a recommended bank for the service but would imagine a 150 point bank would be more than sufficient for following the service.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are £25 for every 15 points profit made.
OVERALL VERDICT: NEUTRAL
Pay Per Profit is an interesting concept of charging for profit made rather than on a monthly basis. It started off our trial very well, making over 70 points in its first four months.
However, after an extended drawdown, the current cycle has been going on for seven months now, currently sitting 46 points down.
So it is time to draw a line under our review and award this a NEUTRAL rating, as whilst it was in profit at 24 points for our trial overall once the length of time and subscription costs are taken into account most people will probably have broken even or be slightly down in the end.
At Betfair SP they have lost 22 points since our last update and are 36 points down for the Cycle, but 25 points up for our trial overall.
Credit to those who have stuck with this for the last six months, all we can hope really is that they hit a run of winners and get back into profit for the Cycle. Fingers crossed!
There’s been some movement in the right direction for Pay Per Profit over the last month, with 8 points profit made at advised prices since our last update.
That means they’re getting back towards even for this Cycle, currently sitting 17 points down at advised prices. For our trial overall they are 38 points up however.
At Betfair SP they have made 12 points profit since our last update and are 14 points down the Cycle, but 47 points up for our trial overall.
It is obviously taking a long time to complete this eighth Cycle, but at least they are moving in the right direction and hopefully by the time of our next update they will be back in profit for the cycle.
Well this current cycle of Pay Per Profit is taking some time to complete. Just a reminder that this is a horse racing tipster whereby you pay for each 15 points of profit they make – called a “cycle” – rather than a monthly subscription fee.
This is the eighth cycle overall and the fourth of our trial. It started back in June and is taking much longer than the others to complete which were all quite swift.
They have lost 2 points since our last update at advised prices, meaning they are 25 points down overall at advised prices for this cycle.
Not much change at Betfair SP either, with 6 points lost since our last update, 25 points lost for the eighth cycle and 36 points up for our trial overall.
This cycle is taking a bit of time to complete but hopefully by the time of our next update it will be finished.
It’s been a while since we updated the results for horse racing service Pay Per Profit. The main reason for that is we have tended to wait until a cycle is complete before updating the results, but unfortunately the current cycle has been going on for some time so we thought best to update things now anyway.
Having started on 24th June, the eighth cycle is currently 19 points down at both advised prices and BSP.
Although it has been a bit of a struggle for this cycle, it is worth remembering that we are still 36 points up for our trial overall, which is good going.
They are currently taking a bit of a break – we presume for a holiday – but hopefully when they return they will press on and get into profit and then finish the cycle.
It took a little longer this time but Pay Per Profit has just completed its sixth cycle of profit, with 16 points profit made at advised prices after 71 bets.
That means they have now made 55 points profit for our trial overall at advised prices.
At Betfair SP they have made 27 points profit since our last update and 28 points profit for our trial overall.
Please note if you would like to join up for the next round, you need to do so by tomorrow evening – i.e. 24th April – at the latest. You can sign up here.
This has been doing very well and we are impressed by the results so far, let’s hope that continues.
It’s been a quiet start to our trial of Pay Per Profit, a horse racing service where you pay for each 15 points of profit they make rather than monthly.
So far after a month of our trial they are 2 points up at advised prices.
At Betfair SP it is a similar story, with 1 point of profit made for our trial to date.
Just a reminder that these are the Evening Bets we are following, there are also morning bets and late bets available as separate services.
A low betting volume with just 10 bets so far, but with the break for equine flu that is understandable and we expect things to pick up now with Cheltenham coming up and lots of top class racing on the cards.
With most tipsters the idea is that you pay a monthly or quarterly subscription for the tips and then place the bets and see how things go.
Some of the time you make a profit that more than covers the subscription, so all is good.
On other occasions, the tipster has a losing run which can be painful as you are both losing money and have to pay subscription fees.
So the service we are looking at today takes a different approach and rather than having a subscription model, uses a “Pay Per Profit” model.
What this means is you pay £25 for each 15 points profit they make, regardless of how long it takes. If you were staking at just £10 per point that would mean you were paying £25 for each £150 of profit made.
So far it hasn’t been taking long to reach the 15 point profit target, with three rounds already being completed since 18th December 2018.
Here is a look at the results in table format:
Round
No. of Bets
Points Staked
Points Profit
ROI%
Round 1
14
31.5
19.6
62%
Round 2
4
7.25
15
207%
Round 3
7
14.5
17.55
121%
Overall
25
53.25
52.15
97%
Pretty amazing results there, with nearly 100% ROI to date and over 50 points of profit.
They offer three services – morning bets, evening before racing bets and late bets – so the results above are for the evening before racing bets.
We have crunched the numbers and so far the evening before racing bets are holding up well at BSP, with 45 points profit made versus 52 at advised prices so not too much of a difference.
Tips are provided via the Telegram messenger app, which you can download to your phone, tablet or laptop pretty easily.
This looks like a promising service so we are eager to see how it performs under a live trial.
Please check back here for regular updates on how things are going.
In the meantime you can check out Pay Per Profit here.
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Direct Booms is a horse racing service from the Tipping Gurus tipster platform. It is run by a chap called John who has been a professional gambler for over ten years. He began life as a professional tipster five years ago with a premium rate tipping service before moving over to social media.
The results looked fantastic coming into our trial and hopes were high early on.
Sadly though the service crashed and burned during our trial, firstly blowing the recommended 100-point betting bank early on in our trial.
We gave the service a second chance and to be fair it managed to bounce back, getting back into profit later on in our trial. However, having recently gone and lost the 150 point bank that is now recommended, we have no choice but to conclude our review with a FAILED rating for the service.
To have blown a recommended bank twice is obviously pretty disastrous and we can’t imagine there are too many subscribers left now.
The staking is quite high at up to five points per bet, which means the losses can stack up quickly and unfortunately they have done so too often in this case. So we will wrap things up here and move on to the next review, hopefully with better luck next time…
Horse racing service Direct Booms has continued its excellent fightback with 21 points profit made at advised prices since our last update a month ago.
That means they are now just 7 points down for out trial overall at advised prices.
We said last time it would take a dramatic improvement to turn things around for Direct Booms and thankfully that is exactly what happened.
With a profit of 85 points at advised prices since our last update a month ago, they have had an excellent month with a steady of stream of winners, the pick of which was at 33/1 (or 60 BSP).
Due to the previous losses however they are still down for our trial overall at advised prices, with 28 points lost in total.
It was an even better month at Betfair SP though, with a profit of 115 points made since our last update. That puts them just 4 points down for our trial overall at BSP.
Good to see things getting back on track for them, let’s hope it continues.
A slight better month at BSP with a profit of 9 points made but they are still 119 points down at BSP for our trial overall.
We think this is a case where a 200 point bank would have been more appropriate rather than a 100 point bank given that the staking is up to 5 points per bet.
Even with a bigger bank though it’s been something of a ‘mare for them and will a dramatic improvement to turn things around.
There hasn’t been much to shout “Boom” about for horse racing tipster Direct Booms lately. In fact quite the opposite, it’s actually been a disastrous start to our trial, with 115 points lost in the first month.
Everyone likes a good “Boom!” now and then don’t they?
Certainly if it’s to celebrate a winning bet, we are not averse to shouting boom ourselves.
Well the next service we are going to take a look also seems to enjoy the idea, so much so they have actually named themselves after the term.
Yes we are pleased to introduce “Direct Booms,” a horse racing service from the Tipping Gurus platform.
It is run by a chap called John who has been a professional gambler for over ten years. He began life as a professional tipster five years ago with a premium rate tipping service before moving over to social media.
Direct Booms apparently have contacts with numerous stables up and down the country and receive information from jockeys, trainers, owners and stable staff that they put to good use.
Their results have all been proofed live in Tipping Gurus’ Trialist Area and they are extremely impressive.
Since starting up in January this year they have made over 270 points profit at a return on investment of over 12%. The strike rate has been a very healthy 32%.
Seven out of eight months so far have been profitable and the average monthly profit is an astounding £490 profit per month to £10 stakes.
The staking is between 1 and 5 points so a little higher than some services but the average is 3 points per bet which is fairly manageable.
The results over the last few months in particular have been very good:
– May: +£529 profit
– June: +£1345 profit
– July: +£457 profit
– August (so far): +£425 profit
So they certainly seem to have found strong form over the Summer and it’s obviously been a very lucrative few months for those lucky enough to have been following the service.
Anyway, as ever we shouldn’t get carried away and let’s see how they get on under a live trial.
So we will kick the review off today and will report back here regularly on how things are going. Let’s hope we have cause for shouting “Boom!” a good few times in the coming months.
Vision Racingis a horse racing tipster from the Betting Gods platform of tipsters and they provide an average of around two tips per day for UK and Irish racing.
The service is run by a guy called Marcus and he certainly seems to know his stuff, with excellent results produced during our trial.
In total after six months of following the tips and over 400 bets, the service made a very commendable 117 points profit to advised prices.
That was to an average of 1 point stakes, which makes it even more impressive and is reflected in the excellent return on investment (ROI) of 28%.
The strike rate was good too at 21% (including placed horses) and we also liked the consistency of the service, with the monthly totals during our review being as follows:-
– July: +£131 profit
– August: +£66 profit
– September: +£634 profit
– October: +£12 profit
– November: -£20 loss
– December: +£370 profit
– January: +£195 profit
So as you can see only one losing month and that was a very small amount, with the rest being winning months including some big ones.
You can see this steady growth also reflected in the profit graph for the trial.
At Betfair SP the results were good too, with a profit of 72 points made during our trial.
All in all then there is a great deal to like about Vision Racing and we have no hesitation in awarding it a PASSED rating. Definitely one to consider adding to the portfolio.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out the morning of racing at between 8am and 9am GMT, so plenty of time to get the bets on. With an average of just 2 bets per day it’s a very simple service to follow.
Availability of prices: Prices do tend to get pushed in so we recommend taking early prices if you can, but as stated above the service is still profitable at BSP so is practical to follow even if you don’t have bookie accounts.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 21% (including placed horses) which is pretty solid although does mean there could be some losing runs along the way, so be prepared for that.
Advised Betting Bank: A 150 point bank is recommended for following the service which seems a reasonable amount to us and was certainly never in jeopardy at any stage of our trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are £1.99 for the first 15 days then £37 per month.
There is a full money-back guarantee for the first 30 days.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
There is a lot to like about Vision Racing: excellent, consistent profits; a high return on investment; a high ratio of winnings months; profitable at BSP; just two bets per day on average. What more could you ask for from a tipster really?
So it definitely merits a PASSED rating from us and deserves a place in anyone’s betting portfolio. If you haven’t joined up yet grab your 15 day trial for just £1.99 now and start enjoying this high quality racing service.
There is quite a big difference with the BSP results for this service, with a 14 point loss made since our last update and 17 points profit made for our trial overall.
Whilst a small loss was made over the last month it is worth pointing out they have made a profit in seven out of the last eight months so this is looking like a strong service overall.
Let’s see if they can get back to winning ways by the time of our next update.
At Betfair SP they are also nicely in profit but not quite as much as at advised prices, with 4 points profit made since our last update and 31 points profit made for our trial overall.
Let’s hope they can keep up this level of consistency and keep churning out the winning months.
At Betfair SP the results haven’t been quite as good – but are still in profit – with 2 points lost since our last update and 27 points made for our trial overall.
It’s quite a selective service with just 2-3 bets per day which makes it quite manageable in terms of the workload and overall this is looking pretty good so far.
It’s been a good turnaround at Betfair SP too, with 47 points profit made since our last update and 29 points profit for our trial overall.
They had a particularly strong day at Haydock on Saturday, landing three winners out of three at odds of 16/1, 13/2 and 16/1 – or combined odds of 2167/1, which is pretty awesome stuff! We are sure subscribers to the service enjoyed those winners and hopefully there will be more like those to come.
Today we are starting a new review of a horse racing service from the Betting Gods platform called Vision Racing.
This is a service that’s made over £1,500 profit so far to just £10 stakes since starting up in October last year. According to the results on the Betting Gods website they have achieved that at an impressive return on investment of over 22%.
Marcus who runs the service focuses on generating big wins at long odds. It’s why selections from Vision Racing have average odds of 11.80. It’s certainly paying off in the long run!
The service has shown a strong level of consistency so far with eight out of nine months being profitable which is good to see.
Average monthly profit stands at over £150/month at just £10 per point, a very commendable amount to have racked up.
Staking is pretty reasonable with most stakes being one point which we like to see, so they are not trying to artificially inflate results with fancy staking.
We started receiving tips on 6th July so will record results from then, with regular updates here on the website.
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Last time we updated Easy Horse Race Lays things had gone a little pear-shaped for them with a bad run that had left the service 23 points down for our trial.
However, we did not expect what happened next, even with a bit of a tough run.
With no bets placed for a couple of weeks we wondered what was going on, so checked the website – only to see it was no longer available. We then sent a couple of e-mails to them but got no response and now we are getting undeliverable messages from their e-mail address. The website is still down and we have heard nothing for a few weeks now.
So it seems to safe to conclude they have shut up shop and given up completely.
If so that is a shame because although they’d hit a rough patch lately, the long-term results were pretty good.
Of course in a situation like this we don’t know the reason for them shutting down, it could have been for another reason besides just hitting a losing spell, but either way it’s a shame not to have communicated with members what was happening.
Anyway, just shows once again the tipping game isn’t for everyone and whilst many try it, only a very select few succeed.
So Easy Horse Race Lays goes into the FAILED/DEFUNCT pile and we move on elsewhere in our search for a profitable laying system.
It’s been a rough old spell for Easy Horse Race Lays lately, with quite a few of their lays going wrong. Since our last update they have lost 21 points, putting them 23 points down for our trial overall.
This is one of the worst runs they have had since starting up more than three years ago, so it is a little surprising to see but can happen to any service ultimately.
Let’s just hope it’s a small blip and they get back on track soon.
As ever it’s important to make sure you stake at an appropriate level for your betting bank and don’t overexpose yourself if they hit a losing run. With lays up to odds of 10 it can hit the bank quite hard if they hit a few losers in a short space of time, so please bear that in mind if you are following the service.
Not only are we in profit though but it’s been beautifully simple, with just an app to set up and then you let it run and place the bets.
You don’t even need to keep your computer on as it’s all done in the cloud.
The only thing to be aware of is that you need to have enough funds in your Betfair account to cover the bets, which is up to nine times your stake for each selection. We have been caught out a few times with not having enough funds in our account and so the bets weren’t placed, but overall it hasn’t affected the results very much.
Anyway, a good start and let’s hope it continues to churn out the profit on auto-pilot.
Over the time we have been running Honest Betting Reviews it has been a real struggle to find a profitable horse racing laying service.
In theory it should be easy – the idea of picking a horse to lose seems much simpler than picking a winning one after all – but it’s surprising how elusive it has actually proven in practice.
Well today we have come across a service that may have found the “secret sauce” and finally cracked it.
The service in question is called Easy Horse Race Lays and we have received a number of enquiries about it from you our good readers so thought we would test it out.
They apparently look at all UK racing and apply specially developed ratings along with other filters to derive the daily selections.
The results look highly impressive – over 350 points profit to 1 point flat stakes since starting up four years ago. The profits by year are very consistent which is good to see:
– Aug 2015 – Jun 2016: 50 points profit
– Jun 2016-17: 77 points profit
– Jun 2017-18: 132 points profit
– Jun 2018-19: 93 points profit
The average lay odds are between 3.00 and 9.99, although the average is 4.25 and having scanned through the full results we can’t see too many instances of losing odds over 5. The longest losing run is 3 and the most successful sequence is 24, which is a very nice run of winners indeed!
The strike is also very high at over 84% so all in all the stats look very impressive.
What’s even better is that the whole thing is operated via a bot so once set up you don’t even need to do anything!
And the bot works directly on Betfair via the cloud so you don’t need to have any separate software or programmes running or mess around with a VPS or anything like that. Just enter your staking and click go!
It all sounds great but as ever let’s reserve our judgement and see how it gets on under live trial conditions.
We will aim to run a standard three month trial but may run it longer if deemed appropriate. There will be regular updates here on how the system is getting on.
In the meantime you can check out Easy Horse Race Lays for yourself here.
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Racing Odds is a horse racing tipster run by a guy called Paul Towers and it has been operating for a full year now. The service has a very nice website and had some positive results coming into our trial, with 147 points profit apparently made.
For the early part of our trial, things moved along very nicely with a profit made in each of the first four months.
Sadly in August that spell was broken however with a small loss made and then in September they had a tough month, with a loss of 42 points made to advised prices (with BOG applied).
Overall though even with a rough couple of months at the end of our trial they still finished with a decent profit of 36 points to advised prices (with BOG applied).
Without BOG applied, they made a loss of 2 points to advised prices.
However, at Betfair SP they made a healthy 55 points profit which is good to see – and also very rare to find a service doing considerably better at BSP than at advised prices.
Here is the profit graph for the trial at BSP:
As you can see it was pretty steady growth until a dip at the end but still a healthy profit made overall.
Based on the BSP results then we are happy to award Racing Odds a PASSED rating as it is a notable achievement to make a profit betting purely on Betfair and without needing bookies accounts.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out the morning of racing at around 10am UK time. With just 1-2 tips per day it’s a very straightforward service to follow.
Availability of prices: This was an interesting one as stated above in that the BSP results actually beat the advised prices, even with BOG applied, so it looks like you are better off using Betfair and not even worrying about the availability of prices at the bookmakers.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 23% which is pretty solid, although there were still some losing runs of 20+ bets, so patience is required – as ever.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t find any bank recommended for following the service but with the strike rate and staking we think a 100 point bank should be sufficient and that is what we used for this trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are a little on the high side at £49.99/month so we think this would only be suitable for people able to stake at a sufficient level to make it worthwhile (e.g. at least £10-£20 per point).
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Racing Odds is a nice, simple service to follow and it achieved the rare feat of being profitable at BSP and having better results on Betfair than at the bookies.
Whilst at one stage it looked like the trial was going to finish with a much higher total before having a disappointing last couple of months, a decent profit of 55 points was still made at BSP and we therefore consider the service is worthy of a PASSED rating.
We will keep an eye on things to see how it progresses over coming months and if it can get back to the kind of consistency shown earlier this year.
Without BOG applied they are 2 points up for our trial at advised prices.
The good news though is that the BSP results are still beating the advised prices, with 53 points lost since our last update but 65 points profit made for our trial overall.
Hopefully this month is just a blip as nine of their previous eleven months have been profitable which is an impressive level of consistency. So let’s see if they can get back to winning ways by the time of our next update.
Without BOG applied they are 56 points up for our trial at advised prices.
The Betfair SP results continue to outshine the advised prices however, with another 6 points profit added since our last update and 118 points profit made for our trial overall.
It’s great to see the BSP results continuing to perform so well and let’s hope that continues over the long run as it would be very valuable to have a service that is profitable on Betfair as well as at the bookies.
It’s been another excellent month for Racing Odds, which is fast becoming one of the best racing services we have reviewed for quite a while.
With another 32 points profit made at advised prices (with BOG applied) since our last update a month ago, they are now 83 points up at advised prices (with BOG) for our trial overall.
Without BOG applied they are 46 points up for our trial at advised prices.
Amazingly though the Betfair SP results continue to perform the strongest, with another 34 points profit added since our last update and 112 points profit made for our trial overall.
What we really like about this service is its consistency, with every month of our trial having been profitable so far and nine out of ten months for the service in total.
At advised prices without BOG, the results would actually be about 32 points lower, so it shows you what the value of BOG can be.
However, the service is actually doing best at Betfair SP, with 39 points profit made since our last update and 78 points profit made for our trial overall.
It is very rare to see the BSP results doing so much better than the advised prices so worth keeping an eye on going forward.
It’s worth noting that the official results at advised prices are based on best odds guaranteed (BOG) and would actually be about 10 points lower without BOG.
At Betfair SP though the results are actually better, with a profit of 39 points made since our last update and 15 points profit made for our trial overall.
We were recently contacted about a new horse racing tipster called Racing Odds, which has a rather smart looking website and some promising results to back it up.
The service is run by a guy called Paul Towers and he says his strategy is based on his “experience over the years from following horse racing. I look at various factors when reviewing the selections for the day and only picks ones I am confident about and do not pick for the sake of having a selection, as some days there may be no selections.”
He has been running his strategy since October 2018 and in that time has amassed some impressive-looking results, with 147 points profit made since starting up.
That has been achieved with a decent strike rate of 34% and a very commendable ROI of 42%. Five of the six completed months so far have been profitable, with the one losing month only dropping 2 points.
It is a selective approach with only around one bet per day, so should be a fairly simple service to follow.
All in all then this looks like an interesting service and we look forward to seeing how it gets on during our review.
We started receiving tips last Friday 29th March, so will record results from then. Results will be updated here periodically during the review.
Loves Racing is a horse racing tipster service provided by a guy called Brett Love who started adult life as a professional footballer but when injury cut that career short Brett turned to pro gambling and more recently tipping to a select group of private clients.
Brett has established quite a reputation for himself since he went live to paying members in November 2017, apparently amassing over 450 points profit in the 18 months prior to our review commencing.
It’s an interesting approach to tipping in that Brett concentrates solely on the big races and festivals, so the vast majority of tips come at the weekends and there aren’t normally tips during the week, unless there is a big festival like Cheltenham or Royal Ascot happening.
That means it’s quite an easy service to follow in terms of workload and as he only tips in big races, prices tend to hold up pretty well too.
Brett provides detailed write-ups for his selections and you can see he puts a lot of time into his work and really knows his stuff.
On to the important part though, how did the results stack up during our review?
We are pleased to report that the results were very good, with a profit of 65 points made to advised prices during our six month trial.
That was achieved with a strike rate of 19% and an excellent return on investment of 26%.
It was quite a steady performer throughout the trial and was only very briefly down at any point, as you can see below:
The Betfair SP results weren’t quite as good but were still profitable, with 27 points profit made over the course of our trial.
As an added bonus there are festival tips which Brett sends out. He advises a separate betting bank of 30 points for those and they made a decent 19 points profit during our trial at advised prices, boosting the overall profit made by Brett to 84 points.
Given the very positive results achieved then at an impressive ROI, we have no hesitation in awarding Loves Racing a PASSED rating. We view this as a serious service for serious punters and could see it being around for quite a while.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out the evening before racing at around 5-7pm UK time and then there are sometimes additional tips sent out early in the morning for that day’s racing. As mentioned above, tips are normally just sent at weekends (with the exception of the big festivals) so the workload is pretty low in following the service.
Availability of prices: You do need to try and take the prices when the tips are sent out, although being big races prices tend to hold up better than for a lot of other services. The BSP results were still pretty good, but made less than half the profit of those of the advised prices, testament perhaps to Brett’s ability to find value.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 19%, so this is a service requiring a degree of patience, although over the history of the tips there doesn’t appear to have been any severe drawdowns, but of course one could hit at any time so being prepared for that is advisable.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t find any recommended bank for the service but with the strike rate and staking we think a 100 point bank should be sufficient and that is what we used for this trial.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are on the high side at £59.99/month so we think this would only be suitable for people able to stake at a sufficient level to make it worthwhile (e.g. at least £10-£20 per point).
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Brett Love is a respected tipster who has established a strong reputation for himself since he began tipping a couple of years ago and that reputation appears well deserved on the basis of our trial.
With a profit of 65 points made at advised prices for his main tips and 19 points profit for his festival tips, we are happy to award Loves Racing a PASSED rating. The ROI was strong at 26% and the light workload makes it an attractive service to be a member of.
The subscription costs are a little on the high side so you will need a decent betting bank (e.g. £1,000 – £2,000) to make it worthwhile but if you have that this looks like a top service to us and well worth adding to your portfolio.
The Festival Bets also had an excellent month, with 33 points profit made since our last update and 27 points profit made for our trial overall.
We are starting to see Mr Love live up to the pre-trial billing and produce some strong results which is encouraging. From the detailed write-ups that accompany the tips you certainly get the impression he is a serious professional and the results for our trial are now reflecting that. Let’s hope it continues.
At Betfair SP it hasn’t been quite so good though with 6 points lost since our last update and 6 points lost for our trial overall. That is partly down to one horse however who won but was then subsequently demoted to second, so the bookies would have paid out but Betfair goes with the official result of second place.
There are also festival bets given out by Mr Love and so far those are 12 points down for our trial.
At Betfair SP it has also been a decent month, with another 7 points profit made and 13 points profit made for the trial overall.
As Brett mentioned in his previous e-mail the weather is making things tricky with the changing ground conditions, but he is still making a profit which is good to see so hopefully that will continue even if the weather doesn’t settle down!
At Betfair SP the results haven’t been quite as good but are also in profit, with 6 points profit made so far.
Brett tends to just tip in the big races and at weekends, so there are quite a few days without any bets. That’s fine though as there tends to be more liquidity and prices hold up better in the big races.
He also tips in the festivals as a separate service and those bets are currently 6 points down for our trial.
We have a very promising horse racing service called Loves Racing which we are starting a review of today as the flat season is just about to get underway.
The service is provided by a guy called Brett Love who started adult life as a professional footballer but when injury cut that career short Brett turned to pro gambling and more recently tipping to a select group of private clients.
Brett has established quite a reputation for himself and since he went live to paying members in November 2017 the service has apparently recorded a profit of 212.42 points and a 32% ROI.
Darren Power of the Betting Insiders Club said of the service:
“These results are amazing… …if I hadn’t seen the proofing mails come in before racing with my own eyes I’d have thought these were made up results.
I truly believe that these are the best results I’ve ever seen from a tipster.”
That’s quite a statement to make but given the results achieved to date it isn’t actually that outlandish.
The service has just opened to new members today and if you join this weekend (i.e. by 1st April 2019) you will get:
– A substantial discount on the normal subscription price; – Brett’s festival selections, which last year made 115 points of profit at a 41% ROI; – And his Rating Selections which produced an additional 138 points profit at a whopping 78% ROI.
So overall that’s 465 points profit across Brett’s various tips over the last 18 months. That would be £4,650 profit to £10 stakes or £11,625 to £25 stakes.
Please note the special discounted prices and extra bonuses are only available until Monday 1st April 2019 however.
We think this is a very promising service so are looking forward to doing a full review of it. As usual we will update results here during the trial so you can see how things are going.
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This is the second time we have reviewed Russell Blair Racing, having originally looked at the service back in 2016. It did very well in that original trial, making 214 points profit in three months.
Having kept an eye on the service since that original review, we decided to take another detailed look at its performance three years later, including things like how the prices stood up, the Betfair SP results, bank size needed and so on.
So we have now completed another review – seven months and over 500 bets this time – giving us a very good picture of the service.
We are pleased to say that Russell has performed excellently once again, making over 300 points profit at advised prices at a superb return on investment of 27%. That equates to over £3,000 profit to £10 stakes or £7,500 profit to £25 stakes.
The results represented a 150% growth of the advised betting bank, which really is top quality stuff.
You can see the progress in the profit graph below, with some big movements upwards throughout the trial:
There was also an incredible 180,000/1 accumulator during our trial, which wasn’t an officially recommended bet but anyone who did place it would have been celebrating pretty wildly when it landed!
Even at Betfair SP the results were very good, with 198 points profit made during our trial.
The only thing to be aware of if following Russell’s tips is that with a strike rate of just 9% you do need a good deal of patience to withstand the losing runs that will happen along the way, but those who do have been richly rewarded.
All in all then there isn’t much else to say other than this is definitely a PASSED rating and there is no doubt Russell Blair is one of the best in the business. He joins a very elite band of tipsters who have made 2,000 points profit overall, putting Russell firmly in the pantheon of all-time great tipsters.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out the evening before racing usually between 6 and 7pm UK time. With an average of 3 bets per day there is a little bit of work involved in following the service, but not too much by any means.
Availability of prices: We conducted a study over a week of recording the prices after tips were sent out and the odds held up pretty well for the first half an hour to an hour, with most advised prices being available. However, beyond that prices do tend to get pushed in quite considerably and certainly by the next morning the value will normally be gone. Even at Betfair SP though results held up well, with just under 200 points profit being made during our trial.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was just 9%, so this is clearly a service for the patient gambler as there will be some losing streaks and drawdowns along the way. You need to be prepared for that and not to just give up the first time Russell hits a few losers. Staying patient and disciplined is key and then you can enjoy the winners when they come and the long-term profits he has consistently made.
Advised Betting Bank: A 200 point bank is recommended for following the service which we think is reasonable given the staking and strike rate. However, to be on the safe side we think a 250-300 point bank could be a better option as there was an extended drawdown in 2017 when most of a 200 point would have been lost. At 300 points it just gives you that much more room for manoeuvre.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are very reasonable considering the results achieved, with a free trial for 14 days then £39.99 per month, £99.99 per quarter or £359.99 per year. Certainly we have seen services with results like these charging at least double or even treble these subscription fees.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
There aren’t many tipsters who are even still going three years after we review them, let alone who go on to amass yet more profits and then absolutely smash it during a follow-up review.
Russell Blair Racing has done exactly that however, making over 300 points profit at advised prices during our second trial of his service, at an exceptional ROI of 27% in one of the most successful trials we ever have run here at HBR in over four years of operating this website.
You do need patience if following the service as there will be drawdowns along the way, but if you are prepared for that and set aside an appropriate betting bank then really there aren’t many better tipping services out there, full stop.
If you aren’t already a member then quite simply you should seriously consider adding this to your portfolio and start enjoying the fantastic profits long-term members have been enjoying for a long time now.
Horse racing tipster Russell Blair Racing has been on scintillating form over the past month, with a stunning 108 points profit made at advised prices since our last update.
That means he is now an amazing 320 points up at advised prices for our trial overall.
At Betfair SP he has also been doing excellently, with 107 points profit made since our last update and 238 points profit made for our trial overall. It’s great to see a tipster that’s profitable both at advised prices and BSP.
The big story of the month came on the weekend of 20th July, when Russell landed an incredible run that included a nice 14/1 winner on the Friday followed by winners at 33/1, 11/1, 33/1 and 12/1 on the Saturday.
That four-timer had combined odds of 180,000-1, a quite incredible combo!
Now he didn’t advise putting an acca on, but even at singles you would have made 170 points profit on the day at advised prices and 172 points profit at BSP, which is quite outstanding.
Suffice to say this service is heading for a passed rating, with flying colours!
The only thing to note is that Russell tips at high odds, so you will need a decent-sized betting bank and a degree of patience if following the service as there will be some losing runs along the way.
If you have those things though, this looks like one of the very best tipsters we have ever come across.
We said last time that at the odds tipped at it would only take a couple of winners to turn things around for Russell Blair Racing and guess what happened…he only went and landed a load of big-priced winners!
Yes it’s been a rich time to be involved with the service as Russell has racked up 212 points profit at advised prices since our last update.
That means he is now 193 points up at advised prices for our trial overall.
It’s been quite a turn around at BSP as well. Last time he was 96 points down at Betfair SP but with 227 points profit made since our last update Russell is now 131 points up at BSP for our trial overall.
So we are starting to see now why this is one of the most highly-regarded tipsters out there – really impressive stuff.
Unfortunately it’s been a little bit of a tricky time for legendary tipster Russell Blair Racing, with 16 points lost at advised prices since our last update.
That means he is now 19 points down at advised prices for our re-review overall.
The BSP results have had even more of a rough time, with 48 points lost since our last update and 96 points lost overall. Although as stated last time that does include a 34 point difference on Petite Jack who was a winner with the bookies but lost on Betfair.
Anyway, at the odds tipped at it would only take a few winners to really turn the results around so let’s hope he can land a few soon.
The picture is a bit more complicated at Betfair SP as one of the selections – Petite Jack at Lingfield on 23rd Feb – was first past the post so was a winner with the bookies, but was subsequently penalised into second, so was a loser on Betfair.
So the BSP results so far don’t look good with a loss of 48 points for our re-review, but that’s including a 34 point difference on Petite Jack. Without that the BSP results would only be 14 points down.
Anyway, that’s just one of those things you can’t really legislate for but is a reason why sometimes backing with the bookies is a preferable option.
About three years ago we reviewed prominent horse racing tipster Russell Blair and he performed excellently during our trial, making 214 points profit to advised prices.
It is quite unusual for a tipster to still be going three years after our original review, let alone to continue producing consistent profit.
Russell has defied the odds and continued to do so however and has established one of the most formidable records in the tipping world as a result, with over 1600 points profit made since 2015.
That would be over £16,000 profit to just £10 stakes and has been achieved with a return on investment of over 30%, which is almost unheard of over such a long period of time.
So with such a strong record having been established, we thought it was time we took another at Russell’s tips and updated our original findings. Of particular interest will be how obtainable prices are and how the Betfair SP results stack up against the advised prices.
Hopefully he can repeat the performance of our original review and prices will be obtainable, because if so then this would deserve a place right towards the top of our tipster rankings.
With UK racing back on after the brief hiatus for equine flu and Cheltenham just around the corner it is a good time to jump back on board.
So we will run our re-review here and will update results periodically during the trial.
Coming into our trial, horse racing tipster Russel Blair had made over 650 points profit in just ten months of tipping, a quite amazing total in such a short space of time.
So we were very interested to commence a trial of his tips.
Often when tipsters come under the spotlight of a live trial however, things take a turn for the worst and they cannot match previous results.
Gladly this has not been the case with Russell Blair Racing who has had a cracking trial, racking up 214 points profit at advised prices and 121 points profit at Betfair SP.
This has come at a return on investment of 50%, which is exceptionally high and is a remarkable achievement over a three month period.
As you can see from the graph below, profits were built steadily over the trial:
Russell takes a nice straightforward approach to tipping and he gives thorough analysis to accompany his tips, which is always to good to see.
The only slight cause of concern is the difference between the results at advised prices and those at Betfair SP, with the latter being almost 100 points lower than the former over the trial.
It became clear to us over the trial that you need to place your bets as soon as possible after they are sent out and to have a good number of bookie accounts to get the most out of the service.
As long as these criteria are not a problem for you, then Russell Blair Racing comes highly recommended and would be a very worthy addition to your betting portfolio.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out in the early evening the day before racing (17.30 – 18.30 UK time) and you need to act fast to take advantage of the early prices. There are on average 3 tips per day, including often an each-way trixie, so there is a little bit of work to do but it is certainly not too bad.
Availability of prices: As mentioned above, the huge difference between results at advised prices and Betfair SP is an indication of the need to get your bets on asap after tips are sent out – if possible within an hour. Waiting until the next day to get your bets will mean missing a lot of the value. And you will need a good range of bookie accounts too.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 16%, which means a degree of patience will be needed to follow the service and there is the possibility of some drawdowns along the way.
Advised Betting Bank: A 100 point betting bank is advised by Russell, but we used a 150 point bank to be on the safe side given the strike rate is a little lower than some other horse racing services we follow.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs for a service of this quality are very reasonable at £24.95/month, £59.95/quarter or £199.95/year
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
It’s been a cracking trial for Russell Blair Racing, a horse racing tipster who began his career on Twitter but now has his own website and provides tips by e-mail.
Profits of 214 points at advised prices at a return of investment of 50% is excellent stuff and one of the best trials we have had in quite a while here at Honest Betting Reviews.
The only thing to be aware of is that prices often decrease substantially between the time they are sent out in the evening before racing and the off, so you need to get bets on as soon as possible and to have a range of bookie accounts if you want to get close to matching the published results.
The website service has only been going for around a year, so doesn’t have quite the long-term established record of some of the other services we have approved.
However, if Russell can continue the form he has shown so far, he may well go on to establish himself as one of the very best and most highly regarded horse racing tipsters in the business.
We will watch his results closely and update things periodically with how he is getting on.
In the meantime we are happy to give Russell Blair Racing an approved rating and would definitely recommend it as part of your betting portfolio.
A huge gap has opened up however between the results at advised prices and Betfair SP, with the latter now being 52 points up, nearly 100 points less than the advised prices.
So it appears this service may not be practical to follow at Betfair SP, or at least results will be significantly lower.
Having monitored prices closely, it now seems clear that you need to get bets on within an hour of tips being sent out to really get the value with Russell Blair.
Things have continued in positive fashion for Russell Blair Racing, with a further 41 points profit added at advised prices and 38 points profit at Betfair SP.
That means Russell is now 154 points in profit for the trial at advised prices and 86 points in profit at Betfair SP.
The only thing to note in the results is that we didn’t include the results for the Dubai World Cup, as those were sent out on 8th February, before we had joined the service and when Russell sent out a reminder the day before the races, he said not to back the tips at the current prices.
But if you had done, we understand you would have lost about 10 points.
As we said last time, there is a big difference between the results at advised prices and Betfair SP, so you really need to get on the selections as quickly as possible after bets are sent out.
As long as you can do that, then this is looking like a very promising service.
There is quite a big difference between the advised prices and Betair SP results so far which is a slight cause for concern, so we will keep a close eye on the availability of prices and see how much pressure they come under.
Russell often tips three tips per day and then combines them in a trixie bet, which has worked well so far as he has managed to hit two out of three legs of the trixie on numerous occasions.
If he manages to hit all three legs of the trixie, then we could really be talking a big win because these are often in the hundreds – or even thousands – to one.
Anyway, a nice positive start for Russell Blair Racingand we will keep you posted on how things go for the remainder of the trial.
Today we are commencing a trial of a horse racing tipster who has built up quite a reputation in a relatively short space of time.
The tipster in question is called Russell Blair (no relation of Tony as far as I am aware) and he has amassed over 650 points profit since starting tipping in April 2015.
That equates to 65 points profit per month, or £650 per month to just £10 stakes.
Only one month out of 10 so far has been a losing one, and even then that was only a 7 point loss where as some of his winning months have been well over and 50 points profit and one even over 100.
Before that he tipped on Twitter and apparently had a very successful record on there and won three tipping competitions.
So it is with much anticipation that we commence this trial of Russell’s tips and are very much hoping he can continue his past record.
The tips are available for a very reasonable £14.95 per month, £39.95 per quarter or £149.95 per year.
So let’s strap ourselves in and see how things go.
Back soon with results updates.
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