Best Horse Racing Betting Apps

Our experts have recommended the apps listed in the table at the top of this page. I’m absolutely confident that any of them will give you a first class betting experience. So I suggest you take a look at these and pick an app that accepts customers from your country.

Yes, online horse betting is legal at a Federal level and has been approved at state level in over 40 states. Irrespective of this, individual punters have never been prosecuted for gambling, and US bettors have been using a variety of betting sites based offshore for many years without any problems.

Yes, absolutely. All betting apps for horse racing (or any other sport) are completely free. Sports betting sites would never charge you a penny to download their apps. They want you to bet with them after all!

Despite what their slick PR campaigns and TV adverts will tell you, the likes of William Hill and Paddy Power do not actually offer the best horse racing odds, offers or customer service.

Think about it. If they’re spending millions on advertising or sponsoring UK horse racing events, that’s money they’re not spending on improving their odds. Or on developing better apps or betting sites.

We make our recommendations based on performance, not reputation. And the fact is, the smaller, online operators provide a better betting experience than the big guys. Sorry Paddy Power and William Hill, but we’re just telling it the way it is.

There are a few good reasons for this. First, you need to set up an account before you can log in to your app, and it’s much easier to register through the bookmaker’s website. So when you’ve done that, it’s then much quicker to download from them directly.

Second, there are quite a few fake online sports betting apps on both Google Play and App Store. These try to masquerade as the official apps, by using similar logos, names, and colors. But they’re not, and you can often get an unwelcome surprise if you run them.

If you download an app direct, you can be certain of avoiding the fakes, and are guaranteed to get the genuine apps.

An app or mobile site is simply a way of accessing a bookmaker’s products and services through your phone. But placing bets on an Android or iPhone shouldn’t mean you miss out on anything. However, it’s true that in some cases, the operators doesn’t do a great job with their mobile products, and some functions might be missing.

This is definitely not the case with the best horse racing apps that we’ve listed above though. Remember, we fully test all betting apps on the market, and only recommend the ones that we would use ourselves. That means they give you access to all the horse races, bets, odds, payment options, features, and streams that you’d get on the desktop version.

So make sure you choose an app that we’ve recommended, and you won’t miss out.

Yes, the majority of sports betting sites and online bookmakers offer a free bet or welcome bonus to new customers when you sign up.

You will normally have to place a qualifying bet first, and when that has been settled the free bet will be credited to your betting account.

In the UK and Ireland, all relevant T&Cs will be displayed on the bookmaker’s mobile or desktop site. Be sure to read these before you sign up.

This is a question that is asked a lot, but it’s very difficult to answer because it depends on your personal preference.

There are plenty of bet types available when it comes to wagering on horse racing. The outright “To Win” market is the simplest, and also the most popular with punters, so this is probably a good place to start. But picking horses to win isn’t easy.

Other popular bets include Each Way, To Place, Forecast and Tricast. You’ll find all of these on the popular betting apps for horse racing, so you can try them out and see which works well for you.

I would advise you to use small bet stakes at first, until you’re comfortable with how all the different markets work. Then you can build up the size of your bets once you get more confident.

You can make a profit, and some people do. But it’s certainly not easy! Yes, there are a handful of professional punters who make a massive income from betting on horse races online. But for every success story, there are hundreds more people who’ve tried and failed.

You can’t just download an app, place a few bets and expect instant riches. Successful sports betting takes many, many hours of research and an in-depth knowledge of the sport. You’ll also need incredible patience, money management, and mental discipline.

Most punters bet on a horse for fun and are happy if they get a few big winners now and again. That’s my personal approach to sports betting as well, so be sure to set your expectations before you download your first app.

Actually no, they don’t. Most bookmakers have at least some horse betting options: major horse racing events and big races like the Grand National for example. But there are some such as EveryGame that prefer to concentrate on other sports betting markets, and so don’t take horse racing wagers at all.