Racing Success System Review

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Mark Boyle – the man behind Racing Success System – has been providing horse racing systems for the past three years, with Racing Winners and Racing Profits being the titles of his earlier efforts.

His latest – Racing Success System – is a refined mix of his ‘horse racing knowledge’ with his ‘money management skills.

The product is sold under the headline: ‘Do you want an effective method in which to help make steady profits through UK horse racing? Racing Success is a solid backing system which can point you in the right direction with regards to a healthy betting bank’, and costs £29 for the system alone.

There’s also the options to pay £69 for selections to be provided to you for the period of one year, or £99 for lifetime selections. Selections for life?! That’s quite some commitment from Mark Boyle: and whose life are we talking about: yours or his?!

That strange option aside, it’s worth noting that there’s a 30-day money-back guarantee and the selections are provided to you Monday to Friday only.

This review is not concerning itself with the subscription options: I’ll rather be looking at the £29 Racing Success System manual alone.

So, Racing Success System is a self-selection win system for handicap horse racing on the Turf only (not suitable for All Weather) and for use in the UK only.

On the deliciously hype-free sales-page we’re told that ‘The Racing Success manual covers nearly all of the eventualities of a UK horse race, apart from being privy to insider information or at the race track itself.’

Mark Boyle says he has carefully taken ‘a close look at the things that really matter in certain horse races and how to mark up the score card in order to make the right selections on a regular basis’.

He doesn’t make a great song and dance about the mega-riches you can earn from this system – instead opting for a much more sensible and believable long-term money-making objective.

The Racing Success System also has a comprehensive and updated results page which makes for transparently honest and interesting reading (his results coincided pretty much with those of our trial).

For your £29, you get a comprehensive 27-page PDF manual, as well as email support. The manual is well-written and succinct and adequately explains how to implement the self-selection process.

As said above, it’s a system for win markets only and you can place your bets at any traditional bookies or their respective websites, or at betting exchanges such as Betfair.

The workings of the system aren’t that revolutionary, but they’re solid and careful. You make your selections using the form information and data on the Racing Post website.

There are various filters that the perspective bet has to pass through before it becomes a valid bet to make. There are minimum odds (2/1) that have to be met and the prices are between 5/1 and 12/1. It takes about 30 minutes a day to find your selections.

A 50-point bank is recommended with 1-point progressive staking. Long-term profit is the aim of the game here, so perhaps our 8-week trial isn’t long enough to really give Racing Success System its due.

December 2013 and January 2014 were our trialing months, and we saw a total of 56 bets made. The number of bets per day varied wildly: sometimes there were 4; other days no selections met the strict ctriteria. The average during this time is actually just less than one selection per day, so if you want a system that provides you with a great number of bets, then Racing Success System is not for you.

December was a terrible month, with a string of losses amounting to a loss of 35 points. January clawed back a bit of that amount, but there were still only 7 wins to celebrate in that month.

Overall, out of the 56 bets, 10 were winners, giving a 17.9% strike-rate and a total loss of 9 points.

If the table for previous months is to be taken at face value, Racing Success System is still making a profit overall, since its inception in July 2013.

It’s a solid slow-burner of a system (at least it should be), but our poor results in the trial mean that we’re unable to fully recommend it. Nevertheless, it might still be worth keeping an eye on to see how it performs in the next few months.