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Product Name: First Favourites
Author: Martin Godfrey
Contact Details: http://www.firstfavourite.com/contact-me-2/
Price: £47 +vat per 30 days
Money Back Guarantee: 60 day 100%
What Do You Get : Horse racing betting selections
Where To Buy: http://www.raceadvisor.co.uk/s/firstfavourite/
Brief Summary: First Favourites is a horse racing tipping service that provided tips at an average odds of 20/21 or 1.95
How Much Money Do I Need To Get Started : Min £100
How Much Money Can I Make ? This service has averaged -0.36 points of profit per month to ISP at 1 point level stakes, +0.44 points of profit per month to BSP at 1 point level stakes and +0.81 points profit per month to advised staking plan, before the cost of the service.
How Much Time Will I Need To Make This Work ? One or Two minutes per day
Will I Need Any Equipment To Do This ? Bookmaker accounts and ability to place bets
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We started proofing First Favourites on the 31st December 2013, and up until writing have proofed 368 selections.
Selections are not provided every day and so far have been back selections only across all codes of racing, and as the name suggests we are backing favourites (normally odds on).
This review will be done to ISP and BSP to 1 point level stakes and will be compared to the tipsters advised staking plan.
The results in this review are correct at time of writing but we will continue to proof First Favourites.
ISP Table
| Bet type | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike rate | ROI | Profit |
| Back | 368 | 196 | 172 | 53 | -2 | -5.83 |
As you can see we have an excellent Strike rate but a very poor ROI and Profit , which is due to the fact that most of the selections are odds on favourites for which we need a much higher strike rate to make any sort of profit in the long term.
BSP Table
| Bet type | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike rate | ROI | Profit |
| Back | 368 | 196 | 172 | 53 | 2 | +6.98 |
At BSP we fair slightly better with the ROI moving up to +2 and the profit taking +12.81 point swing to +6.98.
Advised Staking
| Bet type | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike Rate | ROI | Profit |
| Back | 368 | 196 | 172 | 53 | 3.7 | +13.61 |
First Favourites advised staking plan is to have a starting bank of £1000 and then stake 10% of the current bank on each advised selection. At the end of each month we either take out any profit over £1000 or top up to £1000 if we’ve had a losing month. This means we have £265.92 (13.61 points) profit in almost 17 months
Since the start of proofing there has been 6 winning months and 9 losing months, with the current month at a profit level of zero.
At ISP these are as follows
| Month | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike rate | ROI | Profit |
| Jan 13 | 43 | 26 | 17 | 60 | 8 | +3.32 |
| Feb 13 | 45 | 28 | 17 | 62 | 23 | +10.36 |
| June 13 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 53 | 2 | +0.59 |
| Aug 13 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 67 | 19 | +3.34 |
| Mar 14 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 57 | 7 | +0.93 |
| Apr 14 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71 | 30 | +4.21 |
and at BSP
| Month | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike rate | ROI | Profit |
| Jan 13 | 43 | 26 | 17 | 60 | 15 | +6.45 |
| Feb 13 | 45 | 28 | 17 | 62 | 26 | +11.82 |
| Jun 13 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 53 | 3 | +0.93 |
| Aug 13 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 67 | 20 | +3.61 |
| Mar 14 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 57 | 13 | +1.88 |
| Apr 14 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71 | 39 | +5.44 |
Advised staking
| Month | Selections | Wins | Losses | Strike rate | ROI | Pts Profit | Cash Profit |
| Jan 13 | 43 | 26 | 17 | 60 | 8 | +3.32 | +£157.63 |
| Feb 13 | 45 | 28 | 17 | 62 | 23 | +10.3.6 | +£1213.53 |
| Jun 13 | 30 | 16 | 14 | 53 | 7.5 | +2.25 | +£65.46 |
| Aug 13 | 18 | 12 | 6 | 67 | 31 | +5.57 | +£587.78 |
| Mar 14 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 57 | 16 | +2.24 | +£159.85 |
| Apr 14 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71 | 44 | +6.15 | +£709.03 |
So does this service make a profit ?
At ISP and level staking First Favourites will lose you money at the current strike rate and odds taken, with the cost of the service over the proofing period also to be taken into account.
ISP
| Stake | Profit | Cost of service | Total profit |
| £10 | -£58.30 | £958.80 | -£1017.10 |
| £25 | -£145.75 | £958.80 | -£1104.55 |
| £50 | -£291.50 | £958.80 | -£1250.30 |
| £100 | -£583.00 | £958.80 | -£1541.80 |
Even at BSP we can’t drag ourselves into profit
| Stake | Profit | Cost of service | Total profit |
| £10 | +69.80 | £958.80 | -£889.00 |
| £25 | +£174.50 | £958.80 | -£784.30 |
| £50 | +£349.00 | £958.80 | -£609.80 |
| £100 | +£1243.00 | £958.80 | -£260.80 |
At advised staking the winning months totalled a profit of £2906.88 and the losing months totalled -£2640.96 , which leaves us a profit £265.92 minus the cost of the service £958.80 which leaves us with -£692.88 at these figures we have to say that First Favourites does not make us any money at the current strike rate/odds combination.
Over the last 90 days First Favourites have achieved a profit of 5.14 points with a strike rate of 61% and a ROI 13%, and over the last 60 days the profit is 4.21 with a strike rate of 93% with a ROI of 16%. For the current 30 days, the profit sits at zero with a strike rate of 62%.
Whilst reviewing this tipster I had a dig about to see if there was any way to make some profit from the selections, so I tried the flat selections on their own and then the jumps selections. I even tried 20/80 staking in the win and place markets but I couldn’t get enough profit to make it pay with the cost of the service thrown in.
Here at Race Advisor we consider £100 to be the minimum profit you should be making each month and as you can see we can’t achieve that at the current figures.
In First Favourites we have a tipping service that backs favourites and them normally being odds on.
So, although they have a very good strike rate, it’s not a rate that is conducive with backing selections that are odds on which means we are unlikely to make long term profit with this tipster. They need to pump up the strike rate considerably to achieve a good enough profit to make it work for you as a punter. To that end here at Race Advisor we cannot currently recommended this service
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