Foxbets Review By Simon Fox

Foxbets is a brand new to market horse racing tipster service. It is operated by one Simon Fox and claims to have produced some massive profits in a very short space of time.

Introduction to Foxbets

I have never tried to hide the fact that sometimes, it can be fun to write about a service just because of how blatantly bad it is. There are a lot of different reasons a service might flag up into this category, in the case of Foxbets however, it is all in the headline. “Specialist Equine Eye Surgeon Shares The Secret That Makes Him An Average Weekly Income Of £1,932.21”.

That is a massive amount of money, and why wouldn’t you believe that selections are coming from a “specialist equine eye surgeon”? Simon Fox even includes a picture of himself examining a horse, by which I mean, a picture of a vet from Penmellyn Equine Vets. Having barely scratched the surface, I think that it is quite reasonable to come into Foxbets with an air of cynicism. None the less, let’s see what exactly is on offer here.

What Does Foxbets Offer?

According to the sales material for Foxbets, all that you have to do in order to make the same money as Simon Fox is to put in 3 minutes of work a day. What this means is that selections are issued to subscribers on a daily basis. All that you have to do is “place the bets in the email” and “collect daily winnings”. As you would expect, tips are issued to subscribers directly via email and contain a very basic level of information.

In terms of the bets that you will be placing with Foxbets, these are a combination of straight win bets and each way. Simon Fox definitely advises more of the former than the latter however. The selections cover a variety of odds with the sales material for Foxbets being particularly keen to point to a number of high value winners.

In reality however, if you do get winning horses, they are unlikely to be the 3/1 plus examples that Simon Fox mentions.

It is not at all surprising to me (whilst simultaneously being incredibly disappointing) that there is no staking plan in place for Foxbets. This is very frustrating for a number of reasons, but one of the main ones is that all of the claimed profits are in pounds and pence. This means that in theory, Foxbets could well have made £2,000 per week, but only produced a profit of 2 points.

Lastly I want to talk about the strike rate for Foxbets. This is one area where Simon Fox is keen to talk about his supposed credibility with claims of a strike rate that stands at 92-96%. This would be a phenomenal result if I were inclined to believe it. It is worth noting however that not surprisingly, there is no proofing to back this up.

Given that this number would frankly be incredible for a lay betting service, never mind a backing service which looks at the odds that Simon Fox does, I am very inclined to be doubtful about this claim for Foxbets.

How Does Foxbets Work?

The inner workings of Foxbets are something that I find to be rather interesting. As mentioned, Simon Fox was supposedly an equine eye surgeon. This supposedly meant that he new horses inside and out and that a big part of his selection process was a physical assessment of the horse.

There is also supposedly an aspect of linking the right jockey up with the right horse, as well as knowledge from industry insiders (because isn’t there always with these products?).

My problem with this is that Simon Fox is now retired, supposedly as a results of taking so much money from the bookies. Where this is problematic to me is that Foxbets is supposedly based in no small part on a physical assessment. Something which can’t be carried out if Simon Fox is retired. This means one of two things for Foxbets. One is that a large part of the accuracy of the service can no longer be guaranteed, or the more believable, that it was made up for marketing purposes.

What is the Initial Investment?

There is only one option if you want to subscribe to Foxbets and that is to sign up for the service for an entirely undisclosed period of time. This is priced at £27 plus VAT which at least I can say is not a huge amount of money. It is worth noting the fact that Foxbets is sold via Clickbank which means that there is a full 60 day money back guarantee in place. To credit Simon Fox, this fact is also noted in the sales material.

What is the Rate of Return?

I have already mentioned in the introduction to this article the main claim which is made about Foxbets, namely that you can expect to see earnings of almost £2,000 per week. This is backed up by “evidence” in the form of some highly questionable screenshots.

These show a William Hill betting account with £8,439.02 (supposedly earned in a month) and an HSBC account with £109,736.10. Both of these is highly suspect however and I wouldn’t place a lot of truck on this number.

Conclusion on Foxbets

It is clear to me that there is a lot about Foxbets which is highly questionable. In fact, I would go as far as to say that almost all of it falls into that category. This starts with the claimed results. There are some indicators that these are highly questionable (for example, the HSBC account is the same one that I’ve seen on a million sites before now. The interface is also entirely out of date, something I can recognise as an HSBC customer myself).

The other issue I have is the money and profits claimed to have been made, by way of showing a bank statement on the website:

Now I have no problem with the money being made (many people have such sums in savings accounts these days), and no problem with money shown in a bank account, but I highly doubt that William Hill would let you systematically syphon so much money out of their business on a regular basis –  without severely limiting your betting account in the process!

….In fact I KNOW they wouldn’t let you do that. Your account would have come up for review long before that, I guarantee it.

The story about being an equine eye surgeon is also something that doesn’t sit right for me. Whilst I can appreciate that this is a real job (after all, the equine vets in Cornwall have somebody on staff for it), I don’t see how that person would be in demand to the extent that they would be seeing large quantities of horses before a race.

Certainly not enough to consistently offer tips off the back of a physical assessment. On the subject of this, I want to highlight again how questionable I find this claim.

Whilst I can appreciate that Foxbets is not particularly expensive, it goes without saying that there can only be value for money if a service is any good. Whilst I think that Simon Fox puts forward a very marketable narrative and a pretty slick sales page, that does not a good tipster service make.

Looking at Foxbets as a whole, I can’t even see it as value for money, simply because it appears to be so fundamentally bad.

With all of this in mind, it probably won’t come as a surprise that I can’t really bring myself to recommend this as a tipster service.

There are a lot of examples currently on the market and whilst I can say with my hand on my heart that they are more expensive than Foxbets, they have produced a proven profit. Simon Fox’s offering on the other hand has no tangible evidence and makes me believe that realistically, you will end up losing a lot of money following this in the longer term.