Race Cards Forecaster is a time-saving fully-automated software tool that takes every race at every meet in the UK and Ireland on any given day and forecasts the three probable winners at each (ranked in order of most likely to win): all in a matter of moments.
Once it has given you the names of the three probably winning horses, the rest is up to you: ‘our software will not dictate how you bet … once it has performed its main function of selecting the horses it thinks you should be looking at, the type of bet you finally use is being left up to you.’ This is not a betting system – it’s merely a forecasting tool.
It certainly is a user-friendly bit of kit. You simply click a button to see a list of meetings, click on the meeting(s) you wish to forecast, and click on the ‘forecast selected meetings’ button. You do not have to input anything. Three clicks and it’s done. It beats wading through pages and pages of race cards.
However, my initial concern was how does the software make its selections? This is never really fully explained, not in the sales-page nor in the 6-page ebook instruction manual, at least not to a satisfactory point. It’s something that still troubles me now, even after the trial period. I worry about the workings of software sometimes and am wary about placing too much stock in it.
Trialling the product was a bit tricky because of the fact that I’m left to my own devices about what I do with the three recommendations it provides me with at any given race. I was tempted to place multibets – or ‘dutching’ (and there is a multibet calculator to aid in this, provided as part of the software) – but thought though it might have provided me with better results, it’s not an apt way to trial something that is sold on the basis of providing you with three probable winners of a race. So in the end, I wanted to see how accurate the predictions were and backed all three to win, but only ever paper-traded.
It’s worth mentioning too, that because this is just a piece of software, alongside the lack of instruction as to how to place your bets, there is no recommendations regarding your staking plan and how to recover any losses and protect your bank.
After trialling the software over the past month, I can tell you that one of the top three horses that the software predicted won the race 42% of the time, which is fairly impressive. Some of them had odds that would translate into good winnings too. How you can turn three potential winners that work 42% of the time into winning bets and a growing bank is up to you to innovate. Obviously betting on all three will diminish your bank as quickly as the software churns out its three winners, so the safest answer must be to go down the dutching route.
Additionally, you might get better results if you were to eliminate races over shorter distances, which can be more difficult to predict.
At the very least, I think Race Cards Forecaster is still a useful tool for a professional bettor, to fit nicely within his betting arsenal. It can be combined with other systems or tools (such as speed ratings), to serve as a second opinion or as a complementary comparative device. At £63 for the download, it’s not too expensive, even if it’s only going to be used as an additional tool. Any refunds must be claimed within the first seven days, so if you’re not impressed, you have to decide this very quickly. I think it is a tool that I will return to, if only out of curiosity, probably after I’ve drawn my own conclusions. If the selections from Race Card Forecaster serve to strengthen and concur with my predictions, then I can place my bets with added gusto. I may also try dutching with it – if you’ve had any experience with it in this way, do let us know.
