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TRIAL OVERVIEW
Quick Summary
Introduction
Racecracker is a horse racing tipping service from Clive Jones and his partner Jamie. Clive has been providing racing tips through Bet Chat since 2021, and the pair launched Racecracker with the aim of creating a more affordable option for everyday punters.
The service is designed with smaller stakes in mind, typically around £5–£20 per bet, with the idea that subscribers should still have a realistic chance of making a worthwhile profit after membership fees.
This is quite different from some horse racing services that recommend betting banks of £10,000 or more and stakes of £50–£150 per selection, which can immediately put them out of reach for smaller bettors.
Racecracker takes a different approach, combining a lower subscription price with regular daily selections and an emphasis on providing odds that should be realistically obtainable.
Advertised Stats
Based on £20 stakes
Profit
Strike Rate
ROI
Bank Growth
Putting it to the Test
Racecracker didn’t advertise huge profits or rely on flashy claims. Instead, the published results showed a profit in each year, with enough left over after the annual subscription fee to make the service worthwhile for smaller-stakes bettors.
For my Racecracker review, I initially planned to track around 1,000 bets before reaching a verdict.
After six months, however, I had recorded almost 700 selections and felt this provided a large enough sample to assess the service properly.
As usual, I tracked results at both the tipster’s advised odds and the prices I was personally able to find across multiple bookmakers. I also recorded every selection at Betfair Starting Price for comparison.
How Racecracker Works
The service provides horse racing tips, with a mixture of each-way bets and straight win bets. The advice includes the advised odds and the stakes that should be used.
All tips are sent out via email and also through a private Telegram group.
- Time of tips: Morning
- Bet volume: Average 162 per month
- Advised starting bank: 100 points
Trial Results
Racecracker proved to be a difficult service to follow during my review, with the bookmaker results struggling for much of the trial.
After almost 700 bets, my 100-point starting bank had fallen to 44.60 points, meaning more than half of the bank had been lost.
The results at Betfair Starting Price were considerably better. At the end of the main trial, I was showing a profit of 41.73 points at BSP, helped by a number of selections drifting to much bigger prices than those originally advised.
One thing to note is that my BSP figures don’t include the combination exacta bets advised when two horses were selected in the same race, as these couldn’t be replicated at Betfair SP.
There were 41 of these bets during the trial, with total stakes of 21 points. At bookmaker odds, they produced a loss of 16.40 points.
Although I had enough data to reach a verdict at this stage, the difference between the bookmaker and Betfair SP results was interesting enough that I decided to continue tracking the service.
Unfortunately, the additional results didn’t improve the overall picture.
After a further 223 bets, the BSP profit had dropped to 12.85 points, while the bookmaker bank fell even further to just 18.22 points from its original 100 point starting level.
The extended tracking ultimately reinforced the concerns from the main trial rather than changing my view of the service.
Final Verdict
Unfortunately, Racecracker earns a Not Recommended rating.
The bookmaker results were particularly disappointing, with my 100 point starting bank eventually falling to just 18.22 points.
While the Betfair SP results were more encouraging, the extended tracking also saw much of that profit disappear.
After such a large sample of bets, I simply didn’t see enough from Racecracker to justify recommending the service to subscribers.
If you’d still like to take a closer look at Racecracker for yourself, you can find out more here.
NOT RECOMMENDED
