Horse Racing Betting Guides

Horse Racing is without doubt the main betting sport in the UK with racing on nearly everyday except for Christmas Day, Christmas Eve and Good Friday. So for the other 362 days of the year there is wall to wall meetings up and down the UK and Ireland and you can catch every single race through the two racing channels attheraces and RacingUK.

There are some great Horse Racing festivals to enjoy under both codes the National Hunt and Flat racing and we have covered the very best of them on this site and all the online bookmakers give great horse racing free bets especially for these big race meetings.

Cheltenham Festival

The biggest racing betting event of the year is the Cheltenham Festival which takes place each March. There are 24 races staged over four days and this is easily the most eagerly anticpated race meetings of the year. There are a large number of sites dedicated to the Cheltenham Festival and following are usually the best resources for odds, news and more importantly Cheltenham tips.

  • Cheltenham Festival
  • Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup Runners
  • Champion Hurdle Betting Odds

Grand National

The English Grand National takes place early in April and is by far and away the largest single race of the year, in terms of the numbers of bets placed. With forty runners tackling some of the largest National Hunt racing fences it attracts thousands of punters who place their sole yearly wager. Much like the Cheltenham Festival, there are hundreds of Grand National sites and the following are probably the most valuable resources available.

  • Grand National Betting Guide
  • Grand National Free Bets

Horse Racing Results

Any list of horse racing resources would be incomplete without providing sites which provides live updated results. The two sites below both provide horseracing results updated throughout the day and after each race.

  • Live UK Horse Racing Results and Betting Odds
  • Irish Racing Results and Fixtures

Totepool Horse Racing Odds

Almost anyone who has attended a horse racing meeting will be familiar with tote pool betting odds. These are offered at all courses in numerous tote betting booths. In recent years bookmakers have enabled punters to place tote bets online, yet there are very few decent tote betting resources featuring results or dividends. The only exception to this rule follows.

  • Tote Betting and Dividends Results Service