Paddy Power virtual horse racing

Paddy Power offer customers the chance to bet on virtual horse racing every three minutes and you wouldn’t want the races to come any quicker considering that just about allows enough time to place your bets and watch the action.

For each of the three below tracks, you will get a parade of the horses before the off, along with information such as horse name, jockey name and form which indicates how likely the horse is to win the race (along with the odds).

St Patrick’s Park is a flat racing track (no jumps) and you can get up to sixteen runners in the field, with the favourite winning a great deal on the day that we last visited the Paddy Power Virtual Horse Racing section.

You can place win or each-way bets on the action, while there is also forecast and tricast betting available, enabling you to try and predict the 1-2 or the 1-2-3 home in a particular order of any order.

Hazelbrook is a National Hunt track and it’s great to watch horses going over the fences knowing that there won’t be a faller in sight. You will anything between 8 and 16 runners for each race, with an eight-runner field having the favourite typically priced at 9/4 while the outsider will be a 22/1 chance and rarely wins.

The actual race itself will last no more than sixty seconds, with the runners always going hammer and tongs until the final fence when one horse usually edges clear of the chasing pack. The sound effects of the horses and the commentary make this feel realistic.

The racing at Glenview Gardens is of the flat track variety which means that the horses enter the stalls before being unleashed on the lush turf of the track. The runners complete roughly a circuit of the course and there is usually an exciting tussle to the finish involving one or two of the favourites and also an outsider.

You’ve got the full shebang at Paddy Power, with cycling, tennis, greyhounds, football, motor racing and speedway also available. The cycling, greyhound racing and motor sports work in much the same way as the horse racing, while the football and tennis don’t last anywhere near as long as real matches!