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Northern Monkey Punter Review – Proofed Tips

February 25, 2021 By Steve Adams

Northern Monkey Punter has been run by Wayne Finter since 2010. He mostly focuses on the better quality races, Class 4 and above.

He has been proofing selections to Racing-Index since he first started the service.

To get the most out of his selections, you’re going to need bookmaker accounts, rather than betting his selections on the betting exchanges.

The majority of his bets are singles in both the win and each-way markets, but he also includes doubles and occasional trebles, often with a view to roll-up stakes on ante-post selections.

Wayne gets heavily involved in the Cheltenham Festival and the turf season is his main focus over the summer, so if you’re interested in joining his Northern Monkey Punter service, now is as good a time as any to join.

Bet Alchemist Review – Proofed Tips

February 19, 2021 By Steve Adams

Bet Alchemist is a tipping service run by Nicky Doyle. He’s been proofing his Value Betting Service tips to Racing-Index since March 2013.

With his selections Nicky looks to find value in the market, from bigger priced selections, in better quality races from both the UK and Ireland.

Since the start of 2021 I’ve been monitoring the selections based upon bookmaker best odds guaranteed prices and enhanced each-way place terms.

The majority of selections are advised to be backed each-way, so the enhanced places can make a significant difference to profits.

I take a look at the Bet Alchemist web site, look at the past results and say why I feel now could be a good time to join Nicky’s service.

Free Horse Racing Tipsters Review – Can You Make Money Backing Free Tips?

February 12, 2021 By Steve Adams

At the end of last year I posed the question “Are Free Tips Worth Backing?“. Since then I’ve been monitoring the selections of several tipsters, who provide tips for free.

In this video I provide the latest performances figures on 3 of them. That’s Lucky Loader’s 15, Lucky Lisa’s horse racing tips and bettingexpert Stephen Harris’ top horse racing tips.

I explain a little about each of the services and then look at how their tips have fared since the start of the year.

Spoiler alert. 2 out of the 3 tipsters have done really well since I started monitoring them at the beginning of the year.

2020 Racing High Strike Rate Review – Proofed Tips

February 9, 2021 By Steve Adams

2020 Racing have been proofing their back and lay bet selections to Racing-Index since 2012.

They provide 2 services where they back horses to win and 2 where they lay them to lose.

In addition to the regular proofing to Betfair SPs, from the start of January 2021, I’ve also been monitoring their High Strike Rate selections, based upon early advised prices. These prices are verified using the Oddschecker website.

Watch the video I look at the 2020 Racing web site, look back at their past proofed results and see how much more profitable the selections can be, taking the early prices, rather than backing at SP or Betfair SP.

Tic Tac Tips Review – Proofed Bets

February 5, 2021 By Steve Adams

Tic Tac Tips have been proofing their selections to Racing-Index since 2006 and are the longest serving tipster. They’ve stood the test of time, with many tipping services having come and gone during the time they’ve been proofing.

The proofing area shows results based upon SP and Betfair SP, which isn’t really the best way to get the most from the Tic Tac Tips selections They advise backing their selections each-way and the Betfair place SPs are usually not as good as the each-way equivalent percentages.

From the beginning of January 2021, I’ve also been manually proofing the selections, based upon bookmaker best odds guaranteed prices, available at the time they send out selections.

Watch the video, where I take a look at the Tic Tac Tips web site, look back at their past proofed results and see how much more profitable the selections are when taking the bookmaker early prices, rather than backing at Betfair SP.

Cheek Pieces Review – Proofed Tips

February 2, 2021 By Steve Adams

Cheek Pieces have been proofing their selections to Racing-Index since March 2017. Proofing is automated and results are shown for all selections submitted, based upon SP and Betfair SP (see link below).

From the beginning of January 2021 I’ve also been manually proofing the selections, based upon early advised prices.

Prices are verified using Oddschecker, based upon the time the selections are received (usually around 6:00 – 7:30 pm, the evening before racing.

Prices are also recorded at 8:00am, based upon bookmakers best odds guaranteed.

Watch the video, where I take a look at the Cheek Pieces web site, look back at the 4 years of proofed results and see how much more profitable the selections are when taking an early price, rather than backing at Betfair SP.

A Look At – GeeGeez Gold

January 25, 2021 By Steve Adams

In the first of a series of “A Look At” videos on the new Racing-Index YouTube channel, I take a look at Matt Bisogno’s GeeGeez Gold.

I’ll be using the A Look At videos to show in greater detail some of the web sites linked to from Racing-Index.

In the video I take a walkthrough the horse racing racecards, form reports and analysis tools, designed to help you analyse horse racing form as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Free Horse Racing Tips

December 31, 2020 By Steve Adams

Everyone loves something for free, but when it comes to horse racing tips, are free tips worth backing? After all anyone can look in their daily newspaper, stick a pin into a racecard and select a horse to bet on.

In fact I’ve met tipsters, who openly admitted they put free horse racing tips up on their web site in order to attract visitors to signup to the bookmaker offers on the sites.

If a tipster is charging for their selections, there’s an incentive for them to return a profit for anyone who follows them. Losing runs are inevitable, but members are unlikely to continue to subscribe to a service if they consistently make a loss following the bets.

In yesterday’s blog post I mentioned the launch of a new proofing analysis for a handful of paid tipster services.

Running along side that I’ll be monitoring the performance of tipsters, who provide free horse racing tips, to see if it’s possible to make a profit from backing their free tips.

The Initial 5 free tipsters I’ll be tracking are as follows (I’ll include links to where you can obtain their selections – in case you wish to follow along):

James Regan from Horse Race Ratings. For the past couple of months he’s been providing free weekend bets via his podcast and YouTube Channel.
Steven Dowler aka Architect_Tips has been joining James on the weekly podcast to also provide his weekend bets. But he also provides free daily bets via the Horse Race Ratings Blog.
Chris Loader – provides daily nap, next best, longshot and extra tips via his Lucky Loader’s 15 YouTube channel. Has done well with his selections since racing resumed after lockdown.
Stephen Harris has been posting his selection via the bettingexpert web site, since 2012. He also talks about the reasons for the bets, the evening before the races, on the bettingexpert YouTube channel.
Lucky Lisa’s Racing Tips is a site I recently discovered. Can’t say I know anything about the service, or even if it’s actually someone called Lisa who runs it. They provide details of number of win and placed selection, but no odds or overall profit/loss, so I figured it would be useful to see how their free tips perform.

I’ll be updating results from time to time via the blog and the soon to be launched Racing-Index YouTube Channel. Feel free to subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell, so you’ll be notified once it’s up and running.

New Proofing Analysis and Reviews

December 30, 2020 By Steve Adams

Racing-Index has been proofing tipster’s selections since 2005. There’s been a few tweaks here and there over the years, but by and large things have remained pretty much the same.

The biggest draw back, in recent years, to the way tips are proofed, is only being able to show results based upon Betfair Starting Price (BSP) rather than taking into account early prices and the bookmakers Best Odds Guaranteed (BOG) Prices. Unfortunately, with the proofing system being automated that information isn’t available to pull into the system.

From the 1st January we’ll be providing additional proofing for a handful of services. This will be run separately from the existing proofing section of Racing-Index.

Proofing will be done manually, with results updated from time to time via the blog and a soon to be launched Racing-Index YouTube Channel.

The aim is to better mirror the profit/loss that someone is likely to achieve, backing the selections via the bookmakers, rather than Betfair.

In addition to SP and BSP, performance will be shown based on BOG early prices, taking into account recommended staked points and will also be able to include enhanced place terms, bet multiples and ante post bets.

As we’ll be manually tracking the selections, initially it will only be possible to proof a limited number of services in this way. However if it proves a popular addition to the site, we’ll look to expand it further in future.

From the 1st January, we’ll be monitoring the following 6 services in this way:

We’ll also be looking to review other betting services. These will be more short term reviews where we evaluate various tipsters, systems, ratings etc. To kick things off we’ll be looking at a few services that provide tips for free, to see if it possible to return a profit following free tips. I’ll confirm which service these are in the next couple of days.

Geegeez Gold Free Access Over Christmas

December 23, 2020 By Steve Adams

Matt Bisogno is providing free access to Geegeez Gold throughout the Christmas period, up to and including New Year’s Day.

From 23rd December to 1st January inclusive you can access all that Geegeez Gold has to offer, just by registering as a free user.

The Boxing Day final declarations will be out around midday today, so register now to take full advantage of the free access to all areas of Geegeez Gold’s racecards including the Profiler and Instant Expert.

You’ll also get access to the wide section of reports, plus the Draw and Pace Analysers and the Query Tool.

To register for your free access go to: https://www.geegeez.co.uk/register/

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