How to Predict 6 Horses & Win up to £50,000

You may be familiar with the bet365 6 Score challenge for football; well, they now also have the "6 Horse Challenge" for horse racing. For the 6 Horse Challenge, they give a prize pool of up to £50,000 if you can predict 6 horses correctly.

If you are a horse racing fan, you have probably witnessed some bettors land some big wins on horse racing accumulators. These are often well-publicised on social media for big horse racing events such as the Cheltenham Festival or Royal Ascot.

It's no surprise to your average bettor that horse racing accumulators can have big payouts. Horse racing often has big odds horses within a race, so when a combination hits, it can be at absolutely massive odds. For example, six horses winning at 4/1 each is a combined price of 15,624/1! That's right, you could turn £1 into £15,624 if you can predict six horses at 4/1 correctly. Now that's a big "if" of course.

If the horses were all lower prices of 1/1, the payout wouldn't be as big. It would be just 63/1. Of course, you aren't likely to win a bet at 15,624/1. These types of bets are a lottery. The odds imply we would have to place around 15,000 bets on average to get one 6-fold that won.

The good news is that often you can enter free-to-play games at bookmakers that require no deposit. This gives you a chance to have a go at these high odds bets without putting your own money on the bet.

A free-to-play 6-fold game that you should check out is bet365's "6 Horse Challenge" for horse racing. This gives prizes of up to £50,000 if you predict 6 horses correctly. The prizes are pooled, so the money is shared in the event of multiple winners.

What is the 6 Horse Challenge?

The 6 Horse Challenge is a free-to-play game for new and existing eligible customers that gives prizes up to £50,000 if you can predict 6 horses across 6 horse races chosen by bet365. The competition is usually on Saturdays, and sometimes it runs on other days also. This week it is on Friday & Saturday, for example.

What are the Prizes on Offer?

Prize Pools

6 Correct - £50,000

5 Correct - £10,000

4 Correct - £5,000

3 Correct - 10 Free Spins

2 Correct - 5 Free Spins

How Do I Predict 6 Correct and Win?

Now, this isn't easy. As previously explained, hitting 6 bets at 4/1 is a 15,641/1 shot. This suggests that betting twice a week would take you 150 years to hit the main prize! Don't despair too much, as you don't need to get all 6 horses correct to win a prize. Even just hitting 2 will give you 5 free spins.

To give you some idea of the odds, I looked at Friday's six cards. If we choose all favourites (the lowest odds horses available in each race), we get odds of 6/1, 7/2, 5/1, 15/8, 7/2 & 3/1. The combined odds for betting on these six horses would be 9780/1. So it's a little better than the 4/1 x 6 example I gave, but it's still extremely long odds.

Despite the long odds of hitting a 6-fold in horse racing, it's not impossible to hit a lower prize. With the above example, hitting 5/6 reduces the odds to 874/1. For 4/6 it's 506/1. For 3/6 it's 129/1. For 2/6 it's 7/1.

As we go down the prize ladder, our odds of hitting the prize dramatically increase. We have a 7/1 chance of hitting 2/6 winners. This suggests that we could get 5 free spins 12.5% of the time. Remember, the bookmaker will also have an edge built into the odds, so it will be less than a 12.5% chance in reality. Even so, it suggests we do have a chance at hitting a prize just by playing the free game. If we played it 10 times, we might get 5 free spins on average.

The bigger prizes are harder to win; it mostly comes down to luck. Also, the odds will change depending on which races bet365 chooses for the competition. It might feature lower or higher odds horses, which will affect how easy it is to correctly pick 6 horses.

What Strategy Can I Use to Pick 6 Horses?

Horse racing has many strategies you could use to help your chances of picking the best horses in the race. A good place to start is to view racingpost.com or sportinglife.com. You can use these websites to study trainer and jockey past form. This is a good place to start, as the best jockeys and trainers often win the most races. You can also look at the horse's past form to see how it is currently performing. You can even use speed ratings to work out which are the fastest horses and what their preferred track and distance are. You could select horses based on their preferred going (e.g. heavy, soft, good or firm). You can even look at the horse's progeny and look at sire stats to get some clues about younger horses who may not have much form for you to analyse.

Conclusion

In conclusion, although predicting 6 horses is an enormous challenge at huge odds, we think this free-to-play game is still well worth your time.

Think of it as a free lottery with a reasonable chance of at least hitting the lower prize of 5 free spins occasionally.

New and existing bet365 customers who qualify for this offer can bet below...