Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Why don’t you offer a free trial?  

A. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly we don’t need to because our results speak for themselves. Secondly we can’t quite see what a free trial would prove. Our selections are high priced and a good deal of patience is required along with the ability to see past losing runs. Of course we could do what the majority of tipsters do and offer you a one, two or even a four week trial in the hope that we have a big winner and that this convinces you to sign up and pay us some money. However we believe such trials are a gimmick designed to part you from your cash. No service can effectively tested over such a short period. We expect to make a profit over the long term not week to week or even month to month. We do however offer an industry leading  2 month free trial  on our sister service RacingInvestor.co.uk which offers much shorter priced selections. 

Q. Is Paypal the only method of payment?

A. Paypal is certainly our preferred option but we will consider alternatives. Contact Us for more details

Q. Why don’t you offer a 1 month sign-up option? 

A. For much the same reasons as we don’t offer a free trial. We believe that 3 months is really the bare minimum period for using the selections properly. However we believe that subscribers will benefit most from 6 or 12 month options and therefore offer large discounts for signing up for such periods. 

Q. How do I sign up? 

A. Simply go to the subscription page and choose either the 3,6 or 12 month options. All subscriptions are handled by PayPal. 

Q. What happens after I have signed up via PayPal? 

A. We will add your PayPal email address to our mailing list which is operated by GetResponse. An email containing a confirmation link will be sent to you within 24 hours. Once you click the link you will be set up to receive our daily selections email.  

Q. How do I receive the selections? 

A. We send a daily email containing the selections by 11am at the latest, although most days it is around 7am – slightly later at weekends due to more racing to analyse and the fact that we like a lie-in on Sundays!! 

Q. Do you provide analysis of your selections? 

A. Quite simply no! Having subscribed to tipping services ourselves, we get very irritated when after a winner there is a load of self praise and then excuse after excuse when the inevitable losing run occurs. Our email contains just the selections – no self praise and no excuses! 

Q. Do you recommend a staking plan? 

A. We use a 250 point bank and bet to level stakes. That means you need a £1000 bank to bet £4 on each selection. We do however know of subscribers who operate 100, 150 and 200 point banks. It really is a matter of balancing risk with reward and choosing something you are comfortable with. Scared money never wins and the higher the number of points, the less likely you are to get scared! 

Q. Do you only use Betfair?  

A. Absolutely! You can see from our results that our selections make huge returns at Betfair prices compared to bookmakers SP. The time may come when other exchanges catch up with Betfair and it may be worth looking at Betdaq or WBX in the future. For now though we recommend only using Betfair. If you do not have an account yet you can sign up here and claim a £25 free bet by entering the Betfair Promotional Code DWEA7FRHG. 

Q. Do you recommend taking a price on Betfair or using Betfair SP? 

A. We monitor the market and attempt to get the best price. Most of the time this allows us to get matched at better prices than Betfair SP. However all our results are quoted to Betfair SP as this is the price available to everyone and there is no need to monitor the markets in order to achieve the results we quote. Our selections are sent in time for most people to bet at Betfair SP before going to work, if they so wish. 

Q. On your results at Racing Index there are quite a number of each way selections. Do you bet each way? 

A. No – “each way” is a bookmaking term whereby the payout on a place is dependent entirely on the SP and the type of race. Each way is not available on Betfair who instead operate win and place markets which are independent of each other. We bet win only unless the price on the Betfair place market is 30.0 or above, in which case we bet an ADDITIONAL point on a place. There is no real way of representing this on Racing Index, although we have tried various methods including starting off proofing everything each way and then just those which we thought might well hit 30.0 on the Betfair place market. We have now decided to proof everything to Racing Index win only, in the belief that the important thing is showing that we did actually tip the selection. 

Q. What should be staked when there is more than 1 selection in a race? 

A. We stake 1 point on each regardless of how many selections there are.