Royal Ascot is the most well known flat racing festival of the calendar year, and provides online betting customers with some great betting opportunities and the opportunity to get some free bets.
Covering five days, the thirty or so races vary from the racing over the minimum distance of five furlongs to the maximum, two miles six furlongs of the Queen Alexandra Stakes.

The 2011 Melbourne Cup is Australia’s most famous horse race and racing fans ‘Down Under’ go betting mad for the Melbourne Cup race, which takes place every year on the first Tuesday of November and has done since 1861, so it certainly has a long history!
Known as the Spring Carnival, or sometimes just the Spring Racing, the Melbourne Cup itself, a 3200 metre handicap race, is also known as the ‘Race that stops a Nation’ as one of the most, if not the most, watched sporting events in Australia every year.

Trainer Jonjo O’Neill is aiming to give last year’s Grand National winner Don’t Push It at least one more outing ahead of a return to Aintree as the 11-year-old tries to become the first horse since Red Rum in 1973 and 1974 to win back-to-back at the world’s greatest chase - and the sports betting markets will be moving into overdrive to accommodate his supporters.

Europe’s richest horse race pits classic winners from England, Ireland, France, Italy and Germany against each other, making the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe an occasion not to be missed.

Popularly referred to as the Arc, it is the most prestigious horse race in Europe, and one of the most renowned international events in any sport with a rich history. Many of its winners are subsequently regarded as champions, and its roll of honour features such highly acclaimed horses as Ribot, Sea Bird, Dancing Brave and Sea The Stars.