BETTING ON HORSE RACING
Horse racing is not a popular sport like football, basketball or tennis, but the tradition of betting on this sport is very long. Fortunately, many online betting sites have decided to add the most important horse races in their betting offer, so now it's really easy for a bettor to place a wide range of online bets on his favorite horses.
This sport has a very long history and some say that it originates in ancient Greek, Syria, Egypt and Babylon. Nowadays, this sport is played all over the world in different ways, but there are 3 main categories: flat racing, steeplechasing (the horse races and jumps) and harness racing (the horse pulls the driver in a lightweight cart with 2 wheels).
Even if nowadays there are horse races all over the world (France, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Poland, South Africa, India, Singapore, Japan, United Arab Emirates etc.), some of the most popular ones are the horse races from the UK/Ireland. In fact, most online bookmakers are providing only horse races from the UK/Ireland and some other European countries, but with some luck you can also find races to bet on from Australia or Asia.
Betting on horse racing is easy because you can use the services of popular online bookmakers, such as Bet365, William Hill, Paddy Power, Ladbrokes, Coral, Betfred, Skybet and many others. Each online bookmaker has a different betting offer, but in terms of markets - most of them give you the possibility of placing each way bets, forecast and tricast.
Even if most online bookmakers offer welcome bonuses, when betting on horse racing you can enjoy many other online betting promotions. For example, Paddy Power, Betfred and Coral have many horse racing money back specials.
What's interesting is that there are many online bookmakers who created dedicated sections for horse racing, meaning that you can listen to horse racing commentaries (Coral, Paddy Power, Betfred and more), check detailed race results (Betfred) and consult form sections with excellent info about the horse form, jockey form, trainer form, tips, meeting & course info (Paddy Power). Overall, we can say that there is a wide range of bookies (especially from the UK) who seem to be more focused on horse racing than on any other sport - judging from the special features available for it.
There's absolutely no doubt that horse racing is a type of sport which deserves to be in the center of attention of online bookmakers because it has many fans and it can be very exciting.
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