Anyone who has followed Mr Rix will know that he has a "Feast or Famine" performance record. He used to be one of the NAPS tipsters in the old Sporting Life (no longer published), and more latterly in the Racing Post. He would often win these competitions that listed up to 60 tipsters. However, many of his wins were where he had tipped very high priced winners and there were relatively few of these. So whilst he may have profitable runs he also often had runs of 20 or more losers.

Still it is each to their own here but I would not expect ongoing regular earnings.


Paul

Actually Paul he does generally deliver regular monthly profits during the flat season where most of his bets are. During the jump season there are only usually around 1-2 bets every week.

Andy

Well, be _very_ careful, Phil. That's not something that gets independently monitored anywhere that I'm aware of, anyway. It's _extremely_ difficult to make consistent profits from daily laying for quite a large variety of different reasons. You have only to look at the chat in the laying forums to appreciate the manifold difficulties that people have.

Also note that the variability is statistically _far_ more significant to the results than in the case with other forms of betting! A dip from 90% to 80% in the results would _certainly_ make the difference between profits and substantial losses. (No, I know it doesn't seem like it, but in practice it will, because the reality is that you won't consistently be laying at better prices than SP anyway).

I'm a fully paid up Isiris subscriber and even I wouldn't dream of betting those. I hope that tells you something, anyway!

Agreed. Reminds me slightly of Larry williams winning trading competitions! I also believe (from gossip only, admittedly, and obviously I can't prove it) that by no means does he always back his own tips himself, which I find rather off-putting.

thanks for this post! i was seriously considering subscribing to isiris. do you have any first-hand knowledge of henry rix? i have heard that he does tend to have long losing runs but consistently makes 300 points profit annually,which has to be worth a look. he claims all selections are proofed to the racing post in advance...???? but then again isiris say much the same.

I have experience of both.

Lost a pile last year with Isiris and didn't rejoin. Earlier posts about him laying his own bets I'd agree with. I also watched his selections and they'd shorten as he gave them out and then drift like hell just before the off.

Henry Rix is a similarly weird beast. I am convinced that he is working with bookies/connections to shorten the price of horses that won't win to get them heavily backed and available for laying. Was in Ladbrokes shop to watch a race he'd given a horse on and the Ladbrokes commentary team said just before the off that Henry Rix had tipped this particular horse for the race. The price shortened even further and the horse ran like a donkey. I'm still a member though as he does generally deliver profit - although not his 300+ point claims. You can hardly ever get the prices he advises anywhere. He is as as at the start of today on what I think to be about a 30 run losing streak.

He has a horse in the 1.20 today and you can pobably work out for yourselves from the trends whether he's on 31 by the end of the day or back to 0..

checked an earlier thread you posted around april andy, you said you were up around £5000 profit to £100 level stakes in just a month. is it safe to assume that you have now given back most of that with henrys 30 plus? losing run? let me know roughly how well the service has performed this year compared to claims on his website. thats got to be soul destroying backing thirty consecutive losers at £100 a point!

You're close. I've reduced my stakes down to £20 per point but if I was at £100 I'd have lost around £8000. I reduced my stakes when we'd gone 15 without a win. What claims does he make about this year on his website? I couldn't see anything when I had a quick look.

Today was another loser. Oddly the horse was given out at SP when a price was available. Alarm bells rang when the horse drfited just before the off - sort of confirms my suspicions I think. If you didn't work it out the horse was Everest.

Does anyone have the Isiris backup number?

i agree andy, for someone who bills himself as the nations foremost tipster he certainly seems to have some alarming betting patterns. i saw in the racing post last saturday that he had another advertisement claiming his clients were up somewhere around £5500 to £100 level stakes this year, all i can say is the man must have had a string of massive priced winners in january ?????