Hello Rich, Thanks for mentioning the link above. I certainly wasn't aware of them. I've used a few different laying services but never yet made profits from one. It strikes me that it's absolutely essential to be able to do considerably better than SP. In theory one can do so on the betting exchanges, of course; but in practice it can require a lot of time and attention.
Without wanting to pour any scorn on Lay2Profit, of whom I know nothing, I must say that their few months' results really ring some alarm bells for me:-
First, some of the bets are at enormous odds of 10/1 or so. If they give about 20 bets per month but have two losers at 10/1, that's the end of that month's profits ... which goes to show why, _especially_ with laying services, you need a _very_ long period of results (preferably independently verified, of course) before you start drawing any conclusions!
Secondly, they state on their website "If the horse wins as a consequence of there being a significant non-runner, we reserve the right to exclude this selection from our results." This is, of course, the nightmare (but not particularly unusual!) scenario of laying. You lay a favourite at a price better than SP, and then after that there's a horse withdrawn which was the one you were hoping would beat "yours". As the saying goes, "it only happens all the time". But if these people are going to exclude it from their results when it happens, what does that make their claimed results worth?! They are actually stating openly that sometimes they lay a horse, it wins the race, and then they exclude it from their published results! We can all do that.
I was very surprised to see this (though on a more charitable note it could, admittedly, be argued that they are honest to mention that their "results" are not actually results as one might understand the word).
And having said (or should I say "vented"?
) all that, I wish you very well with it, and I'll certainly follow with interest now that you've mentioned it.
York, you say? There must be some very good racing there ... when the whole city isn't all flooded out?