Racing Members Club Review: Jury Still Out...

Well, dear reader, the first full week's results are in for Racing Members Club and, after a fantastic week, the weekend has been nothing shy of awful.

Three winners at decent prices from five selections over Saturday and Sunday have taken all of the lustre off an impressive previous five days.

The full results are as follows:

Redc	Robbie Scott	LOST		£19
Wolv	Musical Charm	LOST		£19
Stra	Salesin	LOST		£19
Stra	Lusaka De Pembo	WON	3.8	-£76
Thir	Next Flight	LOST		£19
Newt	Knightsbridge Hill	LOST		£19
Newt	Once A Brownie	LOST		£19
Muss	Radiator Rooney	LOST		£19
Salis	6 Shavoulin	LOST		£19
Salis	5 Olympian Odyssey	LOST		£19
Salis	2 Aphorism	LOST		£19
Tram	9 The Spoonplayer	LOST		£19
Folk	9 Red Raptor	LOST		£19
Tram	2 Lyical Assassin	LOST		£19
Tram	5 Bennys Quest	LOST		£19
Bang	6 Englishtown	LOST		£19
Newb	5 Pippa Greene	WON	5	-£100
Tram	7 Santas Son	WON	4.3	-£86
Bath	5 Dixieland Boy	LOST		£19
Tram	5 Lucys Mate	WON	8.4	-£168
				-£126

16 losers and just four winners (80% strike rate), but the winners came at decent prices, and knocked the stuffing out of good run of losers.

Of course, a week is too short a window to fully and fairly appraise a laying service, which can always take hits in the short term. However, the downside risk of laying 7, 8 or 9/1 shots is often not something that people find palatable. Many of the selections nominated by Racing Members Club are sent off nearer a double digit price than an odds on price.

Another thing with a service such as this (and indeed my own Laying System) is that by just receiving the selections, you cannot vouch for the logic that went into those picks.

[With Laying System, I can tell you that there are a number of factors I look at and, although I only offer a tipster type service, the horses put up by me are based on system criteria, rather than personal sentiment. Although this is sometimes frustrating - when I think one will win, like the other day - I have faith in the overall ability of the method to find overbet losers].

Ultimately, I have to say the jury is still out on Racing Members Club. I cannot say anything about how they find their lays, and I will continue to monitor with interest how the runners progress. I will not, however, be posting them to the blog any longer.

I'm off down to Dorset this afternoon, where I'll be spending a couple of days at my father's hotel (check the link here...), enjoying a touch of R&R.

Happy Monday.
Matt