BetAmerica Racing Review

BetAmerica was bought by the iconic Churchill Downs Incorporated, owners of Churchill Downs race track, the home of the world-famous Kentucky Derby in 2017.
With over 150 years of experience in horse racing wagering, the Churchill Downs inc is one of the most trusted names in sports.

Showing over 5,000 races a week, BetAmerica racing brings you all of the top domestic and international horse racing including from the UK, Ireland, Japan, the UAE (Dubai), New Zealand, South Africa, and Australia throughout the year. They also have a selected greyhound racing program too for fans of greyhound racing, as well as harness racing.

In order to register and wager through BetAmerica’s racebook, you must be a resident of and physically located in a stage in which BetAmerica is licensed to operate within. As it stands there are 34 states in which you can place online horse racing bets with BetAmerica. The 34 states are listed below.

Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Registering for a BetAmerica racing account couldn’t be simpler. With just three quick, easy steps, you can register and start wagering in minutes. Simply click through our Pickswise link and enter the promo code ‘BET200’ to get a 100% Deposit Match on your first deposit up to $200 and follow the steps below to get up and running.

• Contact information –  Firstly you will be asked to provide your contact information which includes your First and Last Name, Email Address, and Cell Phone Number.
  

• Account Details – Next, you need to enter your account details, this includes your Address, Zip Code, City, State, Date of Birth, and the Last four digits of your Social Security Number.
• Create Account – Here you will set your username and password. These will be used to log into your account. This is where you also enter the code ‘BET100’ to get your 100% Deposit Match welcome bonus.

The BetAmerica racing homepage displays the majority of the day’s races, and typically split into three sections, Favorites, Featured Races and All Races.

The favorites section allows players to save their favorite tracks by clicking so they appear at the top of the homepage each time there is a scheduled meeting. The featured section highlights the day’s top action from around the world, you can find all of the stakes action here. The All Races button is as you would expect, showing all of the races from that day, and defaulted to be in time order.

The homepage is also filterable, with a filter tab in the top right allowing you to sort by type of racing, including Thoroughbred, Greyhound, and Harness options and also by track as opposed to time order.

Once you have found the race in which you wish to place a wager on, click on the race and it will open a racecard. This will detail all of the race information and includes all of the available bet types and current pool information for that race. It also has a probables section where it will show the probable odds for exotic bets like exactas.

At the top of the racecard, you can select your, bet type, stake, and then click to add your selections. This will create your bet slip and calculate your total stake, at which point all you need to click is submit bet on the right-hand side, and you’re on!

The BetAmerica racing app is available to players on iOS, with no Android app currently available. Android players can access an optimized mobile version of the BetAmerica Racing page, that mirrors the iOS app by heading to the BetAmerica racing page through your browser.

The iOS app has recently been revamped, with it now much easier to use and players can now access the streaming services while looking through the racebook.

The app features all of the same functionalities as the web page and includes stat packs that detail track stats, bias’ and pedigrees to help with your wagering.

All of the bets placed through the iOS app go into the same pari-mutuel pools as placing a bet online so you need not worry about losing any value in the odds when wagering through the BetAmerica racing app.

To download the iOS app simply head to the App Store and search BetAmerica Racing, or alternatively, you can click here

BetAmerica Racing Deposit options

BetAmerica offers many different methods of depositing into your account, these methods can vary from state-to-state and also depends on the level of authentication on your account. With some deposit options, you will also incur a fee, which varies method to method. For all of your deposit options and fees click the “Balance” button on your account.

Below is a list of the most common methods used and accepted by BetAmerica racing, but this is not an exhaustive list, other options may be available.

• NETELLER – Visa or Mastercard
• EZMoney 
• Credit Card 
• MoneyGram
• PayNearMe 
• Check or Money Order
• Bank Wire Transfer 

BetAmerica Horse Racing Withdrawal options

To process a withdrawal at BetAmerica racing you must click on my account icon in the top right-hand corner of the page, then click my funds and then withdraw. Select your withdrawal method and amount and BetAmerica racing will process the request. 

There are three ways in which you can request a withdrawal, these can change from account to account and state to state, however. The three withdrawal methods are as follows;

• eCash – a free option, available from any United States checking or savings account.
• NETELLER – Visa or Mastercard
• Check by Mail

BetAmerica racing offers markets on average of over 5,000 races per week, with all of the top action brought to you from around the world.

Within each of these races, there are a number of different ways you can place a wager, with various different markets on offer. While the exact number and type of market available will differ from race-to-race, determined by the number of runners and the location and quality of the race, the majority will offer the same markets.

The entire list of markets on offer across BetAmerica racing is listed below.

• Win
• Place
• Show
• Double
• Exacta
• Trifecta
• Superfecta
• Win/Place/Show
• Win/Place
• Win/Show
• Place/Show
• Daily Double
• Pick-3, Pick-4, Pick-5 & Pick-6

With so many terms and market types, many bettors, particularly those new to horse racing betting may not be aware of what each market entails, and how to place that type of wager. Our horse racing experts have created a handy horse racing betting guide to explain all of the horse racing jargon and offer our top-5 tips to betting smarter on horse racing. Click here to read our Horse Racing Betting Guide.

Horse racing betting odds are different from what you’d normally expect at a sportsbook. At Sportsbook you are wagering on fixed odds, against the house, in horse racing betting and at BetAmerica Racing, you are betting against other bettors in a pari-mutuel pool.

Pari-mutuel pool betting is where all bets are combined to form a pool of money wagered on that race. The track will take a percentage, but the rest of the money waged is split between winning selections, so payouts depend on how much was wagered on the winning selection and how much was wagered into the pool.

Below the race card, you can find all of the up to date pool information once the pools have been formed, this can be at any time, but usually no later than an hour before post time. As the payout depends on which selections bettors wage on, these figures will change right up until the off.

Below the pools section, you can also find the probable payouts sections that show the probable payouts for exotic bets such as exactas.

The odds you will see displayed around the website are in fractional form, and will either be denoted by a single number such as 10, which is 10/1 or they’ll be seen already as a fraction such as 7/2

Fractional odds are the oldest form of oddsmaking, particularly in horse racing where it’s used throughout.

Fractional odds are simple to calculate as the first number is the amount you can expect to win and the second number the amount you’ll need to stake.

For Example:
If you wanted to place a bet on a horse running with odds of 7/2 then a $20 wager would see you win $70 in profit so $90 in total.

Similarly, a bet $100 wager on a horse that is 10/1, would see you return $1100, a profit of $1000.

A parlay bet is a bet in which you combine multiple selections into one bet, with all selections needed to win in order for the bet to win. In its traditional sense, you are unable to bet a parlay at BetAmerica Racing, as horse racing bets are not fixed odds bets, but instead pari-mutuel pool bets, meaning you’re betting against other bettors in individual race pools rather than the racebook.

The closest thing to a parlay at BetAmerica racing is the multi-race wagers such as the Daily Double Pick-3, Pick-4, Pick-5, and Pick-6.

These types of wagers are all still pari-mutuel pool bets, but you are tasked with finding the winners of multiple, consecutive races at a particular race meet.

You can find these multi-race wagers by clicking the ‘Bet Now’ button on the top navigation bar and then clicking ‘Carryovers’. This page details the track, bet type, and the total amount currently carried into the pool. 

BetAmerica racing offers customer support between 9 AM to 12 AM / EST seven days a week and does so via four different methods. The available methods of support are as follows;

• Live Chat – Chat now!
• Phone – 1.866.607.7929
• Email – help@BetAmerica.com
• FAQ’s – https://www.horses.betamerica.com/bet/support/faq