Betting articles

We have a couple of suggestions to keep in mind as general rules to get the best “value” out of each bet.

1. Always check across your betting accounts and place the bet with the bookmaker giving you the best odds.
2. Try to place your bet as late as possible. Just prior to the jump, the market percentage is at its lowest, so on average, you will get the best odds if you bet as late as possible which will put more money into your pockets over time…
3. …But if you want/need to place your bet early (or think the price might shorten), we suggest using Bet365 who offer “odds drift protection” which will give you the higher of the starting price or your fixed price.
4. Promotions and special offers such as Bet Boosts, Bonus Bets Back, Odds Drift Protection, Top Tote Prices etc provide real and easy value to every Punter. Having a variety of accounts that offer these types of benefits will significantly increase your returns.
5. Be familiar with how each bookmaker treats things like place bets in small races (and after scratchings), dead heats, deductions and calculates exotic dividends to avoid surprises. Where possible, place your bets with the bookmaker who offers the most favourable terms for such bets.
6. Most importantly, only ever bet what you can afford. Horse racing is a great pastime, and winning is great fun – but the fun shouldn’t be taken away by having a losing day.

There are lots of different bet types. The standard bet is a win or place bet, but there are a range of other options across the exotics bet types. Bookmakers are now offering “Same Race Multi’s” to give you all the thrill (and disappointment!) of multi bets in a single race. The main bet types are:

• Win – Relatively high risk as need to pick the winner. Any other result means no return.
• Place – Lower risk bet as selected horse only needs to come 1st, 2nd or 3rd (assuming field has 8 horses or more).
• Exotics – High-risk bets that require multiple events to occur but can have substantial returns. Odds are not fixed or known on these bets, the betting pool for each event is split pro-rata between those that placed a winning bet (relative to bet size).
• Multi’s – High-risk bets that require multiple events to occur but can have substantial returns. Each additional leg of a multi increases the risk (and return)

What type of bet you use should be decided by you, your view on the expected outcome and your confidence level.

We always recommend that you only use bet types that you understand.

We have no affiliations with bookmakers, so we are completely neutral towards the TAB or other corporate bookmakers.

Different bookmakers have different features, services, aps, customer service etc – but over the long term what is going to give you the best result is getting the best odds. We suggest having an account with all bookmakers (or as many as you can afford to fund) so that you can get the best prices and offers, which will deliver you the best value over the long term.

No. We offer free horse racing tips and our Premium Members horse racing tipping service completely independent of any bookmakers. The support our Premium Members provide gives us the ability to keep providing the service, this means that we are incentivized to provide you the best tips possible.