Betting in Australia has never been more popular thanks to Covid and lockdowns, with racing not stopping during that time and with that, the betting websites were quite popular with the public as new punters were engaged.
The question now is which betting sites are the best for punters to use heading into 2023? Down below are five of the best websites we think are available out there for punters to use.
The TAB are the biggest and regarded as one of the best wagering operators out there in Australia, and have been so for a number of years given they were one of the first bookies to go online with their business and alongside Sky Racing, it’s hard to look away from what they have to offer.
The veteran punters still prefer to bet at TAB outlets, Pubs and Clubs, but there really is no need to thanks to the TAB website. It has everything punters want, with extensive coverage of racing on a daily basis, both Australian racing and International racing. The navigation process to find whatever race you are looking for is just a couple of clicks away.
They have the streaming rights for Sky Racing, providing customers with streaming of Sky1, Sky2 and Thoroughbred Central, along with Sky Sports Radio. Being able to bet and watch at the one place is gold and the TAB website is the best in the business at doing that.
The website of Unibet is very easy to use. The layout and colours for the website makes things easy to find and there is no real issue in terms of lagging time and the speed of how it loads. Some websites can be quite painful and log out without warning, but Unibet seemingly runs smoothly.
Their recent partnership with iSport Genius ensures they just about lead the way when it comes sports betting and info on said events. With that partnership, they have a stack of info, whether it be on H2H markets, match facts, predictors and betting tools to help find a winner. It is elite.
A big tick for them is that they provide dead heat payouts and protest payouts. They’ll pay out on both horses that dead heat for first, and will pay out on the horse first past the post if it loses on protest, as well as paying out on the runner that wins via a protest. Both of those are very enticing.
The three panel format of a betting website is the standard across the board, and that is what Neds have done with their website. It’s a simple but effective layout and their predominant orange and white colour set up makes the font easy to read and see, which is a positive given some websites have darker colours and it can be quite difficult to sort out.
The ‘Next To Go’ ticker at the top of the site is very good, covering both Australian and International racing, but punters can set what they want to see as next to go, whether they want to purely focus on a region or a racing code, Neds gives punters plenty of options to use.
Neds users should feel comfortable betting with the Neds bet slip, as the bottom provides options for clearing the bet slip or submitting the bet. There is no cause for anxiety that an actual bet could be accidentally submitted. Some betting websites just require one click to place a bet, but with Neds, you click to submit and then need to click again to confirm.
The Bet365 website isn’t quite the norm compared to other leading websites, but a few minutes of getting familiar with it and you’ll see it is one of the best to use in Australia, with a wide range of markets across both racing and sport available for punters.
The colour scheme is bland, but it makes navigation and the font of whatever it is you are looking for. The top of every bet365 page has a very simple layout that supplies active links to Sports, In-Play and More when you are on a racing page. Immediately below is a green banner with the bet365 logo, with Sports and In-Play tabs in the centre. On the right of the banner is a search bar and links for joining or logging in.
The live streaming they provide, especially with the international racing, stands heads and shoulders better than most. They cover pretty much every international meeting available, with streaming available for all of them, with English racecallers as well, which is a massive factor in swaying punters to head towards Bet365.
Ladbrokes and Neds are owned by the same company, but despite that, the websites are very different. The home page has the three panel format of quick links on the left, next to go/upcoming in the middle and the betslip at the right. They not only have next to go with racing, but have what is coming up for sporting events, as well as key/feature races and sports.
For racing punters, a new tool to help find a winner is ‘Yard Comments’, where they have mounting yard experts providing comments on runner and how they parade. This is available on selected meetings but they are the only bookie that has this product, so it is certainly enticing for all kinds of punters given how a horse parades is an important factor.
Ladbrokes recently signed a deal with Racing.com and with that, they have extensive coverage of Victorian racing, which includes race tips/previews, yard comments and streaming of the races courtesy of Racing.com with comments from the form experts.
