Frequently asked questions

Below are answers to the most common questions about Horse Racing Tips Australia, including how tips work, free vs premium access, and how to check results.

Accounts and access

The Premium Members area is protected for your security.

To access your account, enter your correct username or email address. After that, you can either:

  • Send a login code to your registered email address, or
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If you’re having trouble, please check:

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If you choose the login code option, check your inbox (and your spam or junk folder) for the email.

If you’re still stuck, use the password reset option under the login fields or contact us, and we’ll help you out.

You can update your account in the Premium Members area. Log in as you would normally to access the Premium Member tips, then:

  1. Click “My Account” at the top right of the screen
  2. Click “My Subscription” from the left-hand side menu
  3. Under the Subscription Total subheading, click “Upgrade or Downgrade”
  4. This will take you to a new page. Select your new plan from the drop-down box menu.
  5. Once you have selected your new plan, click “Join Now” and your new subscription level will apply once your current subscription expires.

You can update your account in the Premium Members area, so you are free to manage your account as you wish.

If you forget to cancel your subscription, let us know and we can refund your last subscription payment less the $39 monthly subscription fee (i.e. if you are on an $89 Quarterly Membership, we will refund you $50 being your quarterly membership fee of $89 less the monthly membership fee of $39), noting you will retain access for the month in this circumstance.

No lock-in contracts here. You can cancel anytime before your next renewal inside your account in the Members area.

  1. Log in as you normally would to access Premium tips.
  2. Click “Plans” on the left-hand side of the screen.
  3. In the Current Plan section, click “Cancel Plan” at the top right.

Once cancelled, your membership will remain active until the end of your current billing period.

If you run into any issues, get in touch via the Contact page, and we’ll help you out.

Free horse racing tips

Horse Racing Tips Australia offers free tips every day for major Australian race meetings like Flemington, Caulfield, Randwick, Rosehill, Eagle Farm, Doomben, Ascot and Morphettville.

Free members can view the first three races at each track, with tips updated daily.

You can see today’s selections on the Free Horse Racing Tips page.

The Free Tips are the same ratings that we provide to Premium Members, but we only provide free tips for the first three races of each race meet.

In addition to the ratings for the first three races of each race meet, Premium Members receive ratings for all races, specials and best bets.

Only our Premium Members receive our tips for the Melbourne Cup. Because we provide ratings for every race, Premium Members also receive our tips for major races like The Everest, the Cox Plate, Caulfield Cup and the Magic Millions as part of the service.

Yes. We publish free tips every race day, with no payment or card details required. You can upgrade to see every race and best bets, but it’s optional.

You can view a 1 free tip at every meet straight away. To see the rest of the free tips for the day, we ask you to create a free account using just your email.

No. If we don’t like a race or there’s no value, we won’t force a bet. Some days are about waiting for the right opportunity.

Premium memberships

Becoming a Premium Member gives you:

  • Race Selections for every race, every day, across Australia. This includes ratings for all group races, and other highlights of the racing calendar like the Magic Millions Classics and The Everest Sprint.
  • Best Bets. These include, Exacta of the Day, Where the Money Is, Long Shot of the Day, Multi of the Day and Quaddie of the Day. We don’t post Best Bets every day – we only publish them when we identify bets that meet our criteria.
  • Specials (*). Horses that are a class above the other horses in the race and should be winning.

Our Premium Member service has been running since 2014 and we are proud to say that some of the original Premium Members are still using the service today. We would love to have you on board enjoying consistent winners each day.

If you want to become a Premium Member today, you can choose your Premium Membership plan on the Membership page.

The most important difference between Horse Racing Tips Australia and other betting services is we provide ratings selections for all races, rather than a small number of bets each Saturday. This has three advantages:

  1. Services that provide a limited number of win bets each day tend to influence market prices if the service is good (and if they are bad, you shouldn’t be a customer!) This makes it difficult for punters to make a profit as they can never achieve the same odds the services have assessed the bets at (and report against), meaning their customers don’t see the same profits as the service does. By providing ratings for all races, our service has minimal impact on market prices, giving Premium Members the best chance to find value.
  2. By providing four selections for all races, the HRTA ratings provides the opportunity for Premium Members to bet using a variety of bet types, not just win bets. If you like the thrill of exotics, the value of long shots or low-risk Dutch betting, our service is flexible enough to keep you betting exactly how you like to bet – just with more winners!
  3. Getting told to place 5 or 10 bets a day takes the fun out of punting; you may not understand why those are “good” bets or they may be inconsistent with your betting strategy, they may not even be for a race you’re interested in watching. Whether you’re a professional punter, at the local track with friends or just having a beer with mates at the Pub, we give you the information you need so you can bet on any race you want.

Importantly, we are a totally independent service not affiliated with any bookmakers or corporations, so our customers best interests are our priority.

To see how the Horse Racing Tips Australia service works in real-time, we offer 1week trials for only $25 or join up to one of our great value Premium Membership plans.

Websites, television shows and other services that provide free tips are typically affiliated with, and paid by, betting services. Online betting services use these affiliate services as a method of customer acquisition and are paid based on their customers losing money with the bookmakers. Free bet services are becoming prevalent on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, offering free sports betting and free horse racing tips to generate more customers for the betting service.

These services will have the occasional winner along the way but are typically paid a percentage of the customers losing bets by the bookmaker. Given the conflict of interests, it’s important to carry a healthy amount of scepticism when relying on free tips.

Horse Racing Tips Australia has offered free and a paid premium service since 2014. Because our Premium Members keep the service running, we are incentivized to provide the best tips possible.

Yes. You can try Premium with a 7-day pass, which gives you full access without any long-term commitment.

If you want a bit more time to follow the tips, you can also choose the monthly plan, which gives you full access for the entire month.

All memberships can be cancelled at any time. If you cancel, you’ll still keep access until the end of your current billing period.

No. All memberships can be cancelled at any time before the next renewal.

Free members can view the first three races at each track. Premium members get access to every race at every Australian meeting.

Tips, results and performance

Our ratings have proved successful since we started providing the service in 2014. We focus on one simple principle, identifying the best horse in each race. Given a fair chance, the best horse should win.

The output of our ratings methodology is a relative rating of all the horses in each race, with the highest rating horse published as our top selection, the second highest rating horse being the second selection and so on for the four selections given.

Our top selection is the most successful of our four selections (as expected!) winning at a strike rate of approx. 30% across all races and tracks. We offer four selections for each race as we know many of our Premium Members pursue a variety of punting strategies including Dutch betting, exotics, value bets or each way bets. These other selections have consistently high strike rates with one of our four selections winning at a rate approaching 80%, highlighted by the second selection winning approx. 20% of the time.

In addition to rating the horses within a race, we rate each race based on the assessed probability that our selections will win using a simple three-tier race rating:

Specials (*) – The top selection is the clear highest rating horse and should win. On average, Specials win at a rate over 50%.

Probable (P) – The winner is expected to come from our four selections. Races designated as “P” on average have a win rate 5 percentage points higher than the average across all races.

Open (O) – All horses within the race have relatively similar ratings. Open races have a lower strike rate but frequently have higher priced winners.

The Horse Racing Tips Australia ratings is a flexible ratings system that can be enjoyed by casual punters having a day at the pub to professional punters looking to save time and improve their form analysis.

We are not in the business of changing how you bet, we just want to help you be better at it. What we recommend is that you continue to bet how you would normally bet, using our horse and race ratings system to improve your win rates.

If you like having a swing on win bets, our high win strike rate is going to point you towards more winners. If you’re an each way player – go for it! If you’re chasing that huge exotic or quaddie pay day, we’ve got you covered with four selections for each race. Like Dutch betting to jag consistent low-risk returns, our strike rates across the four selections will help you grind those profits. Whatever your betting strategy, our ratings are there to help you pick more winners.

The Best Bets are a “higher risk, higher return” strategy that leans towards exotics and has a bit of fun with some multi bets.

Over time, our Best Bets have a relatively equal spread of small winners and small losses, but the majority of our betting profits are generated by the occasional monster pay-out only exotics can give you. As a punter, there is nothing like the feeling of landing a quaddie paying 50x your investment or landing a 10 leg multi.

Due to the higher risk associated with these bets, these bets may not suit everyone, but for those that can handle volatility, these bets will deliver the occasional massive account “fill”.

We always suggest that you only bet using bet types you understand, so if you are new to a type of bet (i.e. exotics), please do your research before jumping into your first Banker Exacta or Quaddie without knowing what you need to win with these types of bets and how the dividend is calculated.

Our ratings system is based on identifying the best horse in each race, under the assumption that each horse will have a “fair” chance of winning. But occasionally we face circumstances we don’t expect including changing weather conditions (rain or wind), a biased track, jockey changes, unfavourable race maps or even scratchings.

To better identify which races to bet on and pick more winners, we suggest:

1)  Make sure track conditions suit the horse you are looking at betting on;

2)  Avoid (or adjust) your betting to account for biased tracks or changing weather conditions;

3)  Consider the race map and if it suits your horses racing style

4)  Be confident that the barrier draw benefits your horse

What you are looking for is the above factors to benefit your horse – this is Step 1.

Step 2 is to consider how these factors impact the other horses in the race. To get the biggest betting edge each time you bet, you want to be betting on horses that the conditions advantage more than its competitors (or even better, conditions disadvantage the other horses).

Even if it is the best horse in the race, if you’re not confident that your horse doesn’t have the advantage, don’t force a bet. Only betting in circumstances that are in your favour is the key to making a profit over the long term.

No one wins every day. We track results, stay transparent, and only tip what we’d back ourselves.

No. Horse racing always involves risk. Our tips are designed to be followed over time, not treated as one-off bets.

You can review results on our Results page, where selections are tracked once races are run.

Betting and bookmakers

No. Our tips are independent of any bookmakers.

Free tips are available to everyone, and our Premium Members’ support allows us to keep the service running. We are not paid to push particular horses or bookmakers. Our focus is simply on providing the best analysis we can.

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

Different bookmakers have different features, services, apps, 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 accounts 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 the best value over the long term.

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 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.

About Horse Racing Tips Australia

After the winner result you will see a number for example Winner (1) $5.30 the (1) represents the winner came from the first tip in the sequence. So (2) will represent tip 2, (3) tip 3 and (4) tip 4. This information is given to help people clearly see which horse in the tips sequence actually won and it is then followed by the exacta, trifecta, first 4 and quadrella results information if we have tipped it correctly within the selections given and the prices shown are from the QLD TAB.

To view any tip updates on the website including the live rating results if they are available simply refresh the page you are on by pressing the circle in your browser or by pressing the refresh this page buttons provided on the appropriate pages.

And to view all of our past horse racing tip results simply visit Check All Our Daily Rating Results

Added on Saturday the 30th of June 2018:

We now tell you which races are best to bet as we have introduced Key Notes to the website which outline each races best possibility of winning at a simple glance.

So for example:

Key Notes:

(*) Denotes “Special” so the Top Selection should really win.
(P) Denotes “Predictable” so overall race has a Higher Probability of success within the given 4 selections.
(O) Denotes an “Open” Race with many possibilities so Uncertain Of Outcome within selections.

Ipswich Race Tips:

Race 1: (*) 5, 4, 1, 3 – Winner (1) $1.30 Exacta $2.10 Trifecta $5.10 First 4 $5.60
Race 2: (*) 4, 2, 8, 7 – Winner (1) $1.50
Race 3: (P) 9, 1, 4, 6 – Winner (2) $4.90 Exacta $61.10 Trifecta $199.90 First 4 $812.60

Just something interesting:

Consistency is the key to winning.

 If you like betting for the Win then you will like what you see on our website as the strike rate on average for our Top 2 Selections is 50% of all races run each day and if you like dutch betting you can download free staking software from Winning More right here at free dutch betting software which you can use in conjunction with our tips each day.

Here is what a normal person would do.

Bet 5% of your bank.
Back the top 2 selections
Set a goal say to win $50 for the day.
Reach goal and then pull out and come back the next day.

A Great Tip: A really sensible approach would be to go through the early bookmaker prices for the Top 2 Selections when our tips are first posted for you each day and then search out those races which represent value and bet from there. It is advisable to ignore those races which contain odds-on favourites the type of races which represent little or no value. You will find that generally the bookmaker prices you will see early will be the best prices available as generally the prices for our selections will shorten in odds over the course of the day. 

If you want to find out even more helpful techniques and strategies you can read our ratings help guide here.

You will also see the Exacta mentioned a lot on this site but it is for a reason as the win rate for boxed exacta’s on the site averages between 30% and 50% of all races run each day. And if you can get the Exacta logic will tell you that if you have the field for 3rd you then have the Trifecta and if you have the field for 4th you then have the First 4. Dependent on field sizes and thanks to the flexi dividend if you tie the race up right you can get as much as 33% of the dividend for as little as $10 so if you would like to discover some more helpful punting strategies & advice simply read our ratings how-to guide.

Don’t know which races to bet or what bet type to try? Have a read of our ratings how-to guide which will give you some good ideas you might like to try. Basically the real key is Money Management which means you only bet 5% of your bank on each race you want to wager on until you make your profit for the day and by limiting your risk you are actually giving yourself a greater chance to win and once you have reached your target goal for the day just pull out. Pretty simple stuff really but a lot of people just don’t get it which is why the bookies are doing very well and always have done so.

4 selections are given for each race in there exact order of preference for those that like Exacta’s, Trifecta’s and First 4’s and you can either box or banker them and all of the different methods of exactly how you can do this are easily explained here in our comprehensive Ratings How-To Guide

If you like betting for the Win only then the best strategy is to simply back the Top Selection given or even look wider at the Top 2 Selections if you are looking to gain some extra value. The win percentages for both the Top Selection and Top 2 Selections are provided in our Ratings How-To Guide & also on all our websites Results Pages so you might like to check there for our exact daily statistics.

And if you like betting for the win Winning More has also provided us with some free dutch betting software here which may be of real use to you.

Looking for an easy high percentage way to back our selections? Try backing our Top Selection just for the place and if you are looking for more value try taking the Top Selections just for the place in a multi. From 21 December 2015 until 11 June 2017 there were 24,396 Top Selections. Of these 24,181 actually ran, that is were not late scratching’s. Of the 24,181 that ran, 6969 or 28.8% ran 1st. A further 4,540 or 18.8% ran 2nd. And a further 3,298 or 13.6% ran 3rd. So all up, the Top Selection ran 1st, 2nd or 3rd, 14,807 times or 61.2%.

P. L. L. D. – Planning, Logic, Luck & Discipline

(a) Planning is using Money Management to manage your risk and you can read about this in our Ratings How-To Guide

(b) Logic is simply using common sense and strategy in making your betting selections.

(c) Luck is simply luck in running and that is what horse racing is all about reward for risk, but you can limit your risks and improve your chances of winning by using Money Management techniques.

(d) Discipline is setting goals and once you have achieved that goal walk away for the day.

Our tips are usually posted between 30 minutes and 1 hour before the first scheduled race of the day. Once posting begins, the rest of the selections are generally finalised shortly afterwards.

Horse Racing Tips Australia covers every Australian thoroughbred race meeting, 365 days a year.

Free members can view tips for the first three races at each track on the Free Horse Racing Tips page.

or a reason as the win rate for boxed exacta’s on the site averages between 30% and 50% of all races run each day. And if you can get the Exacta logic will tell you that if you have the field for 3rd you then have the Trifecta and if you have the field for 4th you then have the First 4. Dependent on field sizes and thanks to the flexi dividend if you tie the race up right you can get as much as 33% of the dividend for as little as $10 so if you would like to discover some more helpful betting strategies & advice simply read our ratings how-to guide.

Don’t know which races to bet or what bet type to try? 

Have a read of our ratings how-to guide which will give you some good ideas you might like to try. Basically the real key is Money Management which means you only bet 5% of your bank on each race you want to wager on until you make your profit for the day and by limiting your risk you are actually giving yourself a greater chance to win and once you have reached your target goal for the day just pull out. Pretty simple stuff really but a lot of people just don’t get it which is why the bookies are doing very well and always have done so.

But how do you approach it? 

Well this is an example i will use for Exacta’s but it works for any bet type. My bank is $200 and am basically spending either $6 a bet or $12 a bet so it’s either 3% of my bank or 6% of my bank. I am taking the exacta’s either boxed for $6 for 50% or $12 for 100% or in the format of depending on the selections but for example if the selections are 1, 2, 3, 4 I take 1 and 2 for 1st and 1, 2, 3, 4 for 2nd which costs $12 for 200% of the dividend. So basically if I am betting in $6 units it gives me 33 chances to hit a good result or series or results to get me to my goal for the day which is $50 or I bet in $12 units which gives me 16 chances to reach my goal. Today I outlaid $24 and picked up a good dividend in the first 2 races of $46.10 x 2 which equals $92.20 which gives me a profit of $68.20 and I pulled out at that point. The best time of the day is to bet early and if you check the results you should see patterns developing and you should be able to decide at a glance if something is working at a particular meeting or not. This all applies to any bet type it does not matter if it’s win bets or trifecta’s or first 4’s. Really its pretty basic stuff and if I can get it anyone can. Limit your risks and you are on your way to success and the real trick of the whole exercise is pulling out when you hit your target which is not hard to do in practice over time. Spend small and make those little profits which all add up to you reaching your goal for the day.

How do we make our selections? 

All of the ratings on this site have been selected using sheer hard work and learned experience and they are the best selections statistically we can provide. Racing is simply a fantastic pastime and the primary goal of this site is to simply try and make this pastime more profitable and successful for you by providing you firstly with the runners we judge have the greatest chance of winning and secondly by introducing you to the skills which you need in order to think and act like a professional punter.

Four selections are given for each race in the order of preference and the suggested betting strategy is to find the best value within each of the four runners provided and then back them accordingly from there. Please also remember that there is never a sure thing in racing and that it is all really just a complex game of stats & numbers with luck in running thrown in for extra measure and sometimes things simply do not go to plan, so  always remember to bet sensibly at all times.

Also on this site you will see links to very informative professional punting articles which will show you the exact skills you need to far get better value from your betting dollar. These articles are written by some very experienced punters in the betting game and will be of a real benefit to you, so don’t forget to view these articles and understand them thoroughly. New professional punting articles are also added to the site each few weeks so please check back with us regularly to view the very latest information we have to offer.

Some of the latest professional punting articles we have available are listed immediately below…

And that is all we have to say at this very moment. So great luck & happy betting always. 

Now let’s get to work finding some great priced winners!

​​Any Questions? Contact us directly via the Contact Us page. We’re here to help!

Our tips are put together by experienced Aussie punters using form, ratings and race-day conditions. We don’t take sponsored picks or bookie promos.

Horse Racing Tips Australia covers every Australian thoroughbred race meeting, 365 days a year.