FA Racing is a horse racing tipster service which is offered by Jon Robertson, the man behind the popular footballadvisor.net. Selections are the exact same bets that he has been placing on horses.
What does the product offer?
There is surprisingly little pomp around FA Racing which I in part put down to the fact that Jon Robertson has already proven his chops with football betting. What he does say is that FA Racing is for you if “you are looking for a way to bet with confidence and profit on UK & IRE Horse Racing”, all from a “source that you can trust”. Given the brand backing, I am somewhat inclined to agree with the latter part of this statement, but how much faith can you really put in the former?
As a service, FA Racing is operated in much the same ways as its football based cousin. This means that you can expect email updates when there are selections available as well as them being uploaded to a comprehensive member’s area. Whichever method you use to check the selections, Jon Robertson says that they will be typically provided by 7.30am. These bets can be numerous in quantity (on average, there are six per day) and varied as well.
In terms of the types of bets that you will be placing, FA Racing shouldn’t prove too difficult. The vast majority of selections which are advised by Jon Robertson are of the straightforward variety i.e. each way and win bets. The sales material for FA Racing even refers to the service as being easy to follow. That having been said, there are also occasions where you will be betting on some of the more exotic accumulators with Yankees and Trixies both rearing their heads, something which can start to take time to place.
Turning to the numbers, there is a staking plan of sorts in place for FA Racing however there doesn’t appear to be any real pattern for it. More or less, FA Racing is a level affair with most users advised to stake 1 point (or 0.5 each way) on a bet. On some bets however, you are should be staking 1.5 or 2 points. There is even the odd 3 point betting strasasa. As mentioned, there doesn’t seem to be too much advice in terms of the reasoning.
All of this leaves the strike rate to look at rather conspicuous in its absence if you ask me. Unfortunately, given that Jon Robertson makes no particular claims in this regard and whilst there are results, these go very deep. What I can say however is that over the last few months, FA Racing has attained a strike rate of 23%. Having a quick browse through the published results however show that this is roughly in line with historic results.
It is worth pointing out that if you sign up for a quarterly plan with FA Racing, there are also a number of bonuses available. This includes lifetime access to the Football Advisor Premium Newsletter and lifetime access to the Acca Club. There is one more benefit included however I will explore this in full a little later.
How does the product work?
There isn’t too much information made available on how Jon Robertson makes his selections for FA Racing which is massively disappointing. Especially given the variety and the volume of tips that are involved. He has supposedly been placing the bets for some time however and we are told that there is a “long term, strategic approach” to betting.
As I have said countless times before now, this simply isn’t enough for my liking. Whilst I wouldn’t expect a tipster to give away the details of the service, there should be enough information for a potential customer to make an informed decision. When you factor in that FA Racing only has the 3 month trial period proofed as well, I find it to be rather worrying.
What is the initial investment?
There are 4 options available if you want to subscribe to FA Racing and frankly, none of them come cheap. A monthly subscription is available at a cost of £57 per month. If you opt to sign up for the service on a quarterly basis, this becomes £137. There is a 6 month subscription at a cost of £230 and finally, you can receive FA Racing for the whole year for £425.
I mentioned earlier that there are other benefits to signing up for a 3 month+ subscription and this is a profit guarantee. Jon Robertson says that if you don’t make a profit with FA Racing over 3 months, they will “double your membership until you do”. Presumably, although not explicitly stated, this doesn’t include your subscription fee.
What is the rate of return?
FA Racing was trialled for 3 months and in this period, it made an overall profit of just over 120 points. To credit Jon Robertson, this is a very strong result to have achieved in this time period although I do have some questions about longer term profits. Especially when you consider that the results were boosted massively by a particularly big winner in the first week.
Conclusion
Football Advisor has been around for some time and it has always performed pretty respectably. In fact, any service that has been around for as long as that has (the website was registered in 2014) deserves your attention in its own rights. The key thing to note here however is that this is talking about football advisor.
Whilst Jon Robertson says that he has always done alright on his horse racing (and I have no reason to disbelieve this), launching a new service means that it has to be looked at on its own merit and it is here that I find that FA Racing is rather lacking.
First things first, I don’t doubt that this is a genuine service. I have looked at a lot of crap in my time, all of which is designed to make an internet marketer a quick few quid. That clearly isn’t the case with FA Racing. I also believe Jon Robertson when he says that he takes a long term and strategic approach, however it would have been very nice to have this backed up.
In a roundabout way this brings me to my biggest problem with FA Racing. There is plenty of evidence and proofing (although only for the trial period which is disappointing), but running a tipster service in profit for 3 months can be done without too much problem. Just look at the countless Betfan products which have came and went off the back of a particularly big push, only to bottom out and lose money 4 months in a row.
With all of this in mind, I think that FA Racing is definitely a service to have on your radar. To buy into it now would possibly be a bit rash, especially as it is as expensive as it is. The main reason for this is simply that there isn’t enough proofed results for my taste. It is all well and good Jon Robertson offering to double our subscription if FA Racing doesn’t make money, but if for some reason it doesn’t this doesn’t help your betting bank to recover.
In another 6 months, FA Racing might be worth a look at to see how the service has “bedded in”. Right now however, I would give it a miss.
