RaceMatics Review

RaceMatics is a brand new horse racing tipster service which is supposedly operated by Jacob McDonald. It claims to have produced some very interesting results in terms of profit.

Introduction to Racematics

I always find it frustrating to sit through a marketing video for any tipster service. Not because I dislike them. In fact, if I were watching a genuine tipster talk about their service, I don’t doubt that it would hold my interest very well. I have a passion for betting, and there is little that makes me happier than learning about a topic from somebody who genuinely understands a topic.

What I am less keen on however is an actor from Fiverr read a script in which he cannot pronounce the term “Bettor” correctly. This was my introduction to RaceMatics as a service and I have to be honest and say that it doesn’t paint the best of pictures. None the less, there are some impressive claims made, so I do believe that RaceMatics is worth a more in depth look.

What Does RaceMatics Offer?

I want to start by looking at the logistics of RaceMatics as a service. This is mostly down to the fact that Jacob McDonald is quite clear that not every day will turn up a selection. Whilst this isn’t a problem for a lot of bettors, it can be a make or break thing for some people.

It is also worth noting that Jacob McDonald sends out his selections for RaceMatics the night before racing. Usually between 9pm and 11pm. This by and large works in the favour of subscribers. One area where RaceMatics is very much typical is in so much as selections are sent out directly via email.

In terms of the bets themselves, RaceMatics is widely concerned with backing horses at much longer odds than most services. In spite of this fact, the odds that I have seen from Jacob McDonald haven’t been particularly long examples. The talk in the sales video is all about identifying long shot value bets, yet you rarely see RaceMatics going above 5/1.

Perhaps because of these comparatively low odds, Jacob McDonald seems to almost exclusively recommend straight win bets. Looking at what little evidence there is from Jacob McDonald, it is also apparent that you might encounter the occasional accumulators as well. This is about the closest that RaceMatics appears to get to the philosophy discussed in the marketing.

The staking plan is another point that I want to talk about with RaceMatics.

There appears to be a staking plan in place, that is to say, Jacob McDonald sends out recommended stakes with his bets. Whether or not there is an underlying plan is a very different question however. I certainly haven’t seen any evidence to the contrary. This is very much another point of contention with RaceMatics for me.

Lastly, I want to talk about the strike rate, or the lack thereof, or at least, the apparent lack thereof. I know that sounds confusing, but bear with me. Jacob McDonald says in his sales material that people who buy into services claiming a strike rate of 90% are making a bad decision.

He himself does not make a claim to a strike rate, although there is a vague implication that this will be high. In one of the many testimonials for RaceMatics however, somebody claims to have achieved an average strike rate of “around 64%”, a number that I just don’t believe is feasible through RaceMatics.

How Does RaceMatics Work?

There is a lot to be said about how RaceMatics works, and little of it is good in my opinion. The whole thing is supposedly fundamentally built on the back of Jacob McDonald’s Diploma in Maths which allowed him to create his own algorithm.

This is despite lambasting algorithms of being inherently flawed and not suited to horse racing. This is contradicted several other times. RaceMatics is also supposedly down to Jacob McDonald’s PHd in “numbers” that took him 9 years to get (which is also cited as a reason that there is “no point” in you trying to go it alone).

As well as this, bookmakers often make mistakes we are told. RaceMatics is able to find high value bets instead of outsiders and long shots, even before the bookies have provided odds for them. In fact, Jacob McDonald says that bookies manipulate odds so that favourites and mid range odds are backed more frequently than long odds (I would at this point refer you back to the average odds for RaceMatics of 2/1 to 5/1) because they don’t like making big pay outs.

This carries on, but the long and short of it is that Jacob McDonald claims to be better at finding realistic odds than bookies. I don’t believe this.

What is the Initial Investment?

There is only one option if you want to subscribe to RaceMatics and that is to sign up for the full year. This is priced at a one time cost of £57. It is worth noting that Jacob McDonald claims that this represents a £40 discount on the “actual value” of RaceMatics which is supposedly £97.

This feels like nothing more than lazy marketing. It is worth noting that RaceMatics is sold through Clickbank which means that there is a full 60 day money back guarantee in place, a fact which is mentioned in the sales material.

What is the Rate of Return?

There are three numbers which are quoted in terms of the income potential of RaceMatics and they are repeated throughout the sales material. These are £172 per day, £1,032 per week and £47,923 per year. Obviously, these don’t quite add up. Nor do I believe that the claimed “Incredible Strike Rate” of an average ROI of 52% is believable either.

The one example which is given of a winning day I am not convinced is entirely genuine either. As such, I am very sceptical about the claimed results.

Conclusion on Racematics

There is some good and there is quite a lot of rubbish in RaceMatics. It is much easier to sit and call a service out on what is wrong however than it is to look at what is right, so I do want to talk about the positives first.

The principles that Jacob McDonald talks about are actually very sound. I have looked at a number of different tipster services before now that have been able to generate a profit by exploiting value. I also don’t doubt that some tipsters can do a very good job of better identifying genuine odds than the bookies.

Whilst I am very much behind the ideas behind RaceMatics, I am not entirely convinced that this particular service is able to deliver on said principles. The fact of the matter is that when you look at how Jacob McDonald describes his process, it seems to have less to do with a genuine understanding and more to do with trying to sound impressive.

This is very apparent when you look at the jump from a Diploma in Mathematics to 9 years getting a PHd in Numbers. This is ridiculously vague and seems more like somebody trying to convince you of something fictional than somebody with a genuine PHd in Applied Mathematics.

All of this falls by the wayside a little bit though when you take a moment to look at the fact that there just isn’t any evidence that RaceMatics works. There are some very specific examples that are provided, however I must point out that Jacob McDonald hadn’t added these when the service launched.

This suggests to me that presuming that these results are genuine bets, they are anomalous rather than indicative of anything genuine.

I can see how people may want to buy into RaceMatics. It isn’t really that expensive, the results look good if you don’t question them too much, and whilst it is questionable, there is some evidence there.

Combine this with the kind of marketing that makes a service just sound like it makes sense, and it is certainly appealing. Unfortunately, from everything that I have seen of RaceMatics, you aren’t likely to see a profit from it in the long run.

As such, I can’t really bring myself to recommend RaceMatics.

There are a number of tipsters on the market who can do what Jacob McDonald claims to. You will pay more for them, but the quality is ultimately there and that is definitely more important in my opinion than saving on subscription costs.