Topic: Why is horse racing so unpopular here and a bit of extra feedback - page 14. (Read 2489 times)

This could be the best reason, many site are not focusing in horse racing for some reason since this is very traditional and maybe they still have no partnership with the local operator and they can't just get the odds for the horse racing. The interest of the gamblers will always depend on the feature available in one site so if the gamblers prefers to gamble with other games then it will be the trend. Local gambling operator in my place still have this horse racing betting, I think its more popular to the oldies.

I believe that's one very good reason why a lot of bettors are not going into this sports.
They need to keep up with the changing odds and that's time consuming for them.
And also, when it comes to horse racing, a lot of bettors usually enjoy this sports while actually watching the race.
Hence, we will find most bettors of this sports inside the racing venues or bars with big screen showing such races.

What you'll be doing is something beneficial to the supporters or horse racing. I'm not sure whether people will be genuinely interested given that the only reason they will be joining is the prize money. It might force them to do a little bit of research and perhaps watch a few races, but after all is said and done, I don't know if they'll stick around. There aren't a lot of platforms around that post lines for horse racing so they might not follow the sport very closely.

If you look at horse racing odds at sportbooks you will see them moving very quickly usually while the race didn't even start, I guess it's because bookmakers are taking into account odds from parimutuel local pools in order to calculate their own odds since horse racing is traditionally a sport using parimutuel national pools for betting. But quick changes in odds is not suitable for exchange betting unfortunately.

Aside from the big festivals, horse racing is mostly managed at a Country level.
Here in Italy, there are very few bookmakers that offer odds for foreign markets, often very bad and obviously without an exchange....

I see more or less the same in the crypto sector.
Few bookmakers that offer these odds, practically none offer exchange bets...
in short, the sport by definition linked to betting is not worthily represented anymore and as I can see there are few people that follow such races.

Most people in this forum are interested in sports like football, cricket etc which is why horse racing never really received much attention. Another reason is because crypto gambling sites don't really focus much on it.

You could try your idea though it's tough to tell whether it would be successful or not. Trial and error basically. You should ask the peakies for some advice .

I get it now, so you gamble with targets,  I only bet for the fun of it, if the coming festival has nothing interesting in it I might not put down a single bet, and at the same time if I see some seller race or class 5 has some horse named "Bitcoin something" I must bet on it, although the last one is 0 out of 5 and I know he will finish last out of 20. I just have a limit on how much I bet a month, never cross that even if I'm well in profit, but as I said If I don't think I can enjoy the race I'm not putting one cent on it.

That's probably the reason I would love to see discussions on racing around here, for me it's the atmosphere that matters more than the final result.

ps. Longchamp just finished, two wins, one at 1/4 odds (yup I made $1.25 on a $5 bet...looool) and another each way at 6/1, 13 lost, and my biggest disappointment is that I haven't managed to watch the damn races live!!! I don't even feel like checking how close I was.

Basically, horse racing betting is one of the most popular bets among sports betting lovers, but many of our friends don't rely on betting as the main means of betting, maybe because of different reasons that each individual has, including me, maybe in the past I also often bet on horse racing, but now it's no longer like I said above.

According to my experience, even though betting on horse racing looks easy, it's actually not, in my opinion there are many things and terms that really need to be understood in betting, placing bets on favorite horse racing also has no guarantees, apart from that, studying some types of bets and several offers must also be considered to produce good wins, if not all the bets we place are in vain, Betting on horse racing is said to be difficult, yes it is difficult and it is said to be easy, yes it is easy, but the risk is more dangerous than betting on football, which many people have bet on today.

Several other reasons that make horse racing betting not much interest is placing a large bet in one match, that can be fatal because I have done it before, Different from betting on football, of course, you have big hopes of placing big bets on a match, horse racing is sometimes difficult, not easy for this type of bet, in my opinion, too dizzy to win.

It depends as there are many people who love horse racing and they even more love the cruelty of this sport.
Also in the modern day, we don't see any such bad incidents but of course, many incidents are not brought up in the public.

I would say that if you do not watch any sports whether it is horse racing or any other, better avoid betting on it. Betting should be done where you know fully about the sport and hence you can use your knowledge to place more competitive bets.

There's always some risk involved because it's a competition, but I doubt it's considered overly risky. When we compare it to other sports, there are very high-risk sports like boxing, kickboxing, and the like, yet they are popular and legally organized by promoters. There's even cockfighting, which is considered quite brutal, as the losing chicken often dies. Despite this, some countries have allowed it, with some even considering it a part of their tradition or using various justifications to make it appear acceptable.

Horse racing is there for long time but doesn't get much popularity since majority of people are been hook up with other sport. Media hype is the main reason why horse racing popularity didn't reach to the mass and they always cover those popular sports.
Although we can agree that basket is popular game but football is more bigger and have wide audiences that's why aside from basketball those other sports has not getting enough exposure for them to be notice.

Horse racing is really a harmful type of sport because I also believe that the horse rider as well as the horse are both at risk in such type of racing. The horse rider is at a higher risk because any sudden fall could take away his life or break most of his bones and other injuries are indescribable. Sometimes the horses also die when they suddenly fall during the race and that's why it's truly a risky sport as compare to others. I also believe that Football is also a very risky sport because many players can get badly injured during the gameplay. There have been many cases where players legs got broken during the matches and that's why we can call it also a injurious type of sport. I think cricket is safer option for the ones who want to bet and other than cricket the tennis is the best choice for the ones who want to bet on the sports that don't cause any kind of injuries.

May be it is but I need at least some calculated risk there to feel a bit good about the bet I placed. Although the day I am not lucky nothing works. For example yesterday luck was supper bad and I lost a good amount of money [I usually is very patience when I gamble but when I lose patience because of few constitutive lost bets, then I end up losing a good amount because I starts to increase stake]

American Football is vicious with endless injuries.

Horse racing is a sport that kills at least 1 or 2 jockeys a year and quite a few horses.


Soccer or non American  Football have injuries but not a lot of death.

Yesterday I wanted to close the topic but seems like the latest feedback was still better than I would expect normally as it topic grow larger.

So I guess I will just give it a try for the next week, a new topic for discussion and one in games and rounds I guess where everyone would be able to choose his horses, probably the upcoming Irish Champions Festival, 4 grade 1 races on which I plan to lose d'oh , bet more than 1 mbtc anyhow.   It's too late for the Prix du Moulin which would have been great too but a week is more than enough.

I see that a lot of users are concerned it's complicated, I don't get it.
If you can play a handicap game in the NBA you obviously can do a placement in racing, let's not even talk about just setting a winner and that's it. Of course, if we go into an exchange and place against and on that's different but I'm not planning on lecturing users on that.


By default I'm banning you from my gambling topics  , We will talk only about mining speculations!  
I do gamble a lot (as in times) but I never exceed the planned sums, I usually end up betting smaller sums on weird combinations just for ht fun than going all in to make it big or whatever, and most of the time end up throwing a bet because of the horse name and some recent real-life event .


This is one of the misconceptions, you have all the data.
You know how the horse runs on grass or dirt, you know how he runs on 6f or 7 for one mile, you know how he runs on fast or slow goings, and you know his previous form ratings, it's not just blindly picking things.

I don't know why people like to talk about football as being more predictable when Denmark won the EU championship after coming from holidays not even being qualified or Brazil getting SevenUped By Germany.



Betting on horse racing is estimated to be over €100 billion annually.!!!!
And here we had users telling me betting on horse racing is dying.!  

I haven't quoted or replied to a lot of you but I'm really positively surprised on the feedback, more info than I hoped for.

Exactly, this is same my point on why horse racing doesn’t popular worldwide. Also the investment for the horse racetrack is one of concern since only few can afford to host this game since the horse requires huge field to race compared to cockfight colliseum.

Raising and training a horse too is not an easy task which is why there's only few players interested to enter the competition. But with a good media coverage, I think horse racing might be popular again because this is a very exhilarating sports.

There probably aren't many who are horse racing enthusiasts. Even if there were, they'd probably be really minor, it would probably end up being better making a private telegram channel or something similar due to how small the population size is.

I do think it's interesting but it's technically a sport, so I'm more on the side of wanting to know more about it. I got to watch it first with an official Japanese Horse Racing tournament online. Seeing as it was Japanese, I had absolutely no idea what the casters were talking about but the hype was there alright. If I were to join just because of how interested I am, I'd probably just choose a random horse number, and scream go while the race is ongoing which sounds interesting in itself, but I'd like to pass on the YOLO moment. Might become a bad habit. May join once or twice though.

Honestly, mate, I know about horse racing as we also have horse racing competitions in our country, but the lack of media coverage is probably the reason why I didn't develop a passion for this sport. Basketball has always been the most popular sport in our country, which is why I tend to focus my gambling on basketball, especially the NBA.

I'm just curious why it's not popular here considering it's part of the most popular sports to bet on.

https://www.pledgesports.org/2020/05/most-popular-sports-to-bet-on/

Personally I grew in an area where Football and Basketball where the two most popular sports. The next comes car racing and tennis. So, no one was talking about horse racing, only if one or two guy would say it in a decade and those guys were admiring horses. Probably, the reason why it's not popular is that some people think, there is a corruption, drug use and cruelty in this game.

1. No, that won't attract genuine interest and probably will turn into shitposting or your audience will be very narrow, won't worth it.
2. You can try to see, why not? One or two events will be enough to give you an idea about that.

Horse race is rare in my country, it is solely reserved for the elites. The cost of playing this game is high so people pay less attention to it. And when a sport is not popular people will not place bets on it since they know little or nothing about it. I have watched some of the live games and I find sport interesting but very risky.

There is nothing that is not possible if money is involved. Running a production bet will attract more interest and members will watch games and predict matches. I will personally be interested because no knowledge is wasted. There is no harm in a trial, it could come out great.