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In my place horse racing game is legal and gamblers put their bets on the horses of their choice, however there group of gamblers who place bets by themselves within the group they form and watch the game online or live on TV and distribute their bets to the winner after the game. This one is illegal. Do you have the same activity in your place and are you participating in horse racing gambling too?

Why it is illegal if they do on their own?

I think it is not considered as gambling if you do bets by watching a game on TV or something it just can be considered as fun bets so we can do if we want and it is not a gambling in my opinion.

Why exactly is that illegal? This is my first time of hearing such because in my place, we see it as a normal activities and just as same as every other betting in football etc. I believe that not everyone can make it to the value where the horse racing is happening live. And this shouldn't make others who want to watch or bet on it to feel left out in participating. Or else it has to do with culture for you people.

there are no legendary horse racing gambling in my country. I only do online gambling if I want to place a bet for a horse race. and this I think is not interesting. and horse races are very difficult to guess. I never won that bet

I can't understand, I have to read it many times but still I can't get it. You said that it is legal to horse race and then there are people who are forming groups and when they win with their bets they are giving a portion to the winner(I assume the horse rider). How it can be illegal?

I agree that the horse races can hardly be called gambling. For me it is more like a sport, the same as football or basketball, which brings together both direct participants and spectators. In my city there is a racetrack and there are races. Some people make bets, even develop their own systems, how to guess the horse that comes first. I think it's very interesting, much more interesting than casinos or computer games.

Where I live we have a national horse racing system in place and there's a lot of gambling involved although it is viewed as a sport and the people that are betting on it pretty much live and breathe it with all of the statistics etc. (I've seen people with a wall full of information and stats throughout the years for certain horses and riders). It's really insane. I usually just buy in to one of the many groups that exist from time to time with like $100 or something. One time one of these group hit it big and I won around $4400 (there were like 25 people that bought in with $100 each). I've never heard of any of these groups giving parts of the winnings to the winner in the race, but then again I'm not sure why it would be considered illegal, unless I'm misunderstanding what it is you are saying.

I see sportsbet.io shows the online gambling option as a horse race betting as well on that. So if you want to bet for gambling there are many online with using the bitcoin so nothing cannot be stoppable bro.
If there are is any other site giving the option t bet for horse race betting means I will check and share the same to you buddy.
Here in my location there is place called horsing club where the betting going pretty legal to bet with the fiat cash.

Same thoughts were this is just a fun bet and cant really be considered as an illegal thing unless if its already on large scale on where there is already involvement of lots of gamblers into a certain place then having no permit on such activity would really be considered illegal but if you done this with your friends or into some small number of people then i dont see anything illegal with it.

I participated once due to high rewards but it's just for testing my beginners luck. I really don't preferred a gambling game on which Im not comfortable and doesn't have a knowledge on it.

Horse racing gambling game is legal here but only for those who are regulated. Any kinds of unregulated gambling here is illegal. We have some sort of gambling bookies around our streets and it attracts people (generally, mostly age of late 30's above) because of high reward on a small bet although as usual, it must be on high odds. And honestly, houses around that bookies take that opportunity to do business by establishing a drinking bar with live horse game to watch since the main bookie was full of people and you can't watch the race properly.

Just a dissapointment that at the end of the day, lots of paper bets scattered all around the place and it will just be sweep by street sweeper the next day in the morning.

Everything is a business, of course they would monetize the shit out of it and a simple drinking bar is easy enough to establish to keep the patrons entertained and busy gambling. We can't really expect a sore loser to clean up his losing ticket can we? If it won then he'd cash out and like 95% of the people throw the tickets in fraustration.

People do gamble over here on horse betting but as this is new country for me I haven't tried betting on those online. There are also some hotels which offers betting on those horses locally like you have said and distribute winnings in cash without taking any record or submitting any docs/tax to government which might be considered as illegal. They are doing it freely so don't know whether they are allowed to do it or not, I will never get involved on such things in this new country.

I think it depends when you are on the inside of the race tracks than watching only on TV because when you are in arena you will gonna pay for the entrance but for those who only watched online they were not paying, but have their pros and con. If no one caught you betting then it is not illegal yet, but if someone knew then it is illegal.  ;D

In my country there are some operating legal casino but most of the gambling games is illegal including horse racing becuse our government do not want people to be addicted in gambling because it has bad effect in the life of a person andnto their family.

If there's some fixing/throw/cheating involve that would make it illegal but if someone would start a gambling site for horse racing yeah there's nothing illegal (depends on the country).

Last time I made a bet on horse racing was when directbet was still up. Only made that bet because of a tipster here in the forum I decided to follow him for his good win record it was a bet on a horse that was favored to win the race the pay out was below 2.00 (decimal odds) and lost.

There will always be some illegal form of betting in any kind of gambling. This is present not only in horse race betting but also in other games and even sports games like boxing matches. This is usually done underground and in Las Vegas, there is said to be a mafia group who dictates the winner. As much as horse races and casinos are entertaining, illegal activity is being practice under the waters. Beneath the colorful lights of a casino, there are dirty secrets beneath it. Casinos are also said to be a way for druglords or criminal syndicates to launder their money.

People will finds a way to earn even in illegal things, betting is somehow normal now among groups to add thrills and excitements in their game as their watching it, horse gaming is quite popular too in our country and we do bet only in our area just by watching it at television.

I never bet on horse racing

In our country we have horse racing called as video karera. As far as I know this is not illegal in our country and this is not an active kind of game nowadays. I think this one becomes illegal to some other countries because of the fact that it involves betting and has large amounts of bets involve which causes ones bankcruptcy or big debt.

I don't remember a country where horse gambling is illegal so far I know, all countries allow this type of gambling. Now what you're referring to is called gropism betting, it's where like minded people meet and bet within themselves it's natural to do so nothing bad in it. There're multiple reasons one to avoid paying taxes, anonymity from the government and at times habit. Don't bother about these people you really can't stop them and if you're not comfortable stay away from them.

unfortunately my place or my country horse racing is not yet popular, but there are some places that are quite popular, I do not know whether horse racing used as a race or just a gambling event

We have the horse racing bet as a legal in our country and thus many enthusiastic do betting on their favorites. It nice that along with the jockey even people who have bet do cheering up so that their horse win and they can earn money

Forming a group and finding themselves more benefits is usually happening in most of the gambling houses hence no surprises for me in this. In our country, we are having legal horse racing still I'm not aware of any such kind of activities. Now a days I do not prefer physical gambling houses nor fiat based gambling hence horse racing not in my favorite list anymore.

I don't think its illegal in a sense. If you are talking about local bookies then its illegal. Yes, I have been in local horse racing for so long. But I already quit because our local bookies doesn't want to accept bets because the government is pursuing illegal gamblings, including horse bookies.

But if just a group of friends watching live horse racing and then trying to bet against each other, then I don't see any illegal on it as long as its within or inside their home.

Well it depends on the country if it is legal or not legal to them but here in my country it has a lot of horse racing places to make bets and sometimes it's near the train station and you would notice them because there are a lot of people were staring at the TV and probably are intense because they are betting something.

Gamblers in the gambling use different games and in our country racing game is legal and most of the people are gambling through crypto currency and the racing games are good in gambling and the gamblers are good to win and through this we can meet with different people from different societies. and the horse racing is good to do in our country because so many gamblers i have seen in the horse racing.

Im a little off topic but as everyone here is a horse racing fan I thought I would throw it into the mix.  We have just released a crypto only racebook at mbet.io (https://www.mbet.io).

It goes without saying we are horse racing fans and most countries we visit have horse racing as a betting opportunity.  I think what the OP was talking about with friends putting money in and the winner taking the lot is what we call a sweep.  We mostly only do this for huge races that even non-gamblers bet on.

They have a regulated horse racing track a few miles from where I live so I do not see how it is illegal to bet on horses if you are with a group of people or if you are alone. That is a weird thing to try and make sense of but I think it depends on where you live because every country has their own set of rules put in place to try and curb or deter people from betting for some reason.

Horse racing is one of the famous gambling and it is almost popular in all countries but some countries made it illegal though.Buy why it is illegal if we do with group of people it maybe considered as fun bets rather than gambling.

That's why its called the King of Sports. Even in a landbased casino, there are bonuses in a slot wherein you go run and fight against each other. lol. And there are horse racing betting as well, which replicate the scenery and ambiance on a true race track.

But yeah, I agree, we don't know why some countries banned horse racing, its extremely fun. I guess the element of gambling and animal cruelty (whipping the horse) may have something to do with the ban itself.

I still don't get it and how it can be illegal if there are groups that are doing it. It's weird thing because I can't even understand how does it becomes illegal. I might understand if that is sort of mafia or match fixing.

I don't know any groups like that, although it makes perfect sense for those groups to exist, since illegal gambling is very appealing in a lot of countries, mostly so that they can use high volumes of money, and pay no taxes (although there might be other reasons of course). In my country it's horse betting is legal, but we don't really have a physical place to bet on horses. We can just use normal sports booking sites, and bet on UK horse racing, etc.

Maybe there are some illegal groups like the one you've mentioned, but I was never looking for them, so I'm not aware of any in y region.
By the way, aren't those groups dangerous? I also associate those gambling places with money laundry, etc.

All kinds of gambling in my country are banned, but in the past I personally was an active gambler in online horse racing gambling, but now I have left it. Gambling at horse racing is very quick to get results, I really like it, but to predict it takes a short time only 5 minutes, that's a challenge for me. Because the new bet will come out 5 minutes before the horse race begins.

Would you share on what gambling site you are playing on?When it comes to horse racing.Ive been searching these kind of sites on where i could bet horses on live via online. Results would really be fast but i didnt expect that it do only give 5 minutes for you to pick up or bet up with your horse until the race begins.I would be glad if you would reply. ;)

Wait all kinds of gambling is illegal in your country? where do you live if you don't mind me asking, as that sounds fucked up.. How can they even keep that going? I mean there has to be some underground gambling going on at the very least, right?

I'd also like to ask where you did bet online, as it could "help" others in the same situation :D.

any gambling is illegal at my place, but I like to hold a classic game that we can play for fun during a very tedious activity, it's legitimate, often playing horse races on TV or some kind of online match just a moment.

It also happens in my place. I think they consider it illegal because there are instances wherein it caused chaos and riot in the place where the bettings are done. There is no arbiter, no middleman so they just do what they want. If they feel to ran away with the money they just do and it is causing uncontrolled fights and casualties in that place. So locally as much as possible they are trying to stop this kind of activity.

I am living in a Muslim country and therefore in my country gambling is totally illegal and if you will found as guilty then you will be charge for that, but it does not mean that people here do not play gambling, i my country people play gambling but  only on few gambling games. they mostly play gambling on dice and on sports games, where they feel more confident while playing gambling.

Horse racing is also popular in my country, but people do betting by illegally becasue it is not allow openly to do bet on horses instead of it people do it. I have seen this game when horse are racing but i have no experience of betting. Also i know the horse racing game has a big earning of gamblers. But i can't understand you thread, as you said in your country horse betting is illegally then what's the problem if people do betting to watch T.V. It is legal or illegal, it doesn't matter. When people enjoy it then they do bet on it, it is also a fun part.   

Gambling in horse races are still popular in my country. Bets are not online though and are sold inside arenas. Online betting is still prohibited in my country.

Actually in my homeland we dont have much that kinds of games,but there some part of my country  in northern part that mostly people play that kind of disame of games that we called it "karera" i dont  know if this is legal or illegal because there are times that i see this kinds of games in television,and people put there bet into those horses they choose and those horse have a number and also  had rider called jockey,but mostly this kind of games played only those wealthy  person in my country.

Horse races are popular everywhere in the world and where there is horse racing there will be gambling. According to my analysis in my country it is the hobby of elite class. Only they can afford this expensive game, also they bet very high amounts on these races. The bets here are in millions which I can't even think about to participate in.
These races are live broadcast on the television and the winners are paid high prizes. Gambling here is illegal so they deal it under the table. Honestly I have no idea about any online betting on them in my country. 

When you do talk about physical or actual horse racing then expect only elite class would really be here to make bets and on the thing you said which it does really involve bets talking about on millions already.I dont know why this type of gambling is very entertaining for them and making such ridiculous amounts on making a bet but well its their own money as long they do enjoy then it doesnt matter.For online horse racing we can really bet among with other people it might be on small amounts but i dont consider for this thing to be illegal.

Yes, however, as you have said its gambling, so for me its not only the elite that can play this game, but even casuals like us can bet and can win huge bucks. The only advantage is that the rich one will definitely win large amount because of their capital, while the casual depends on their analysis of the horse, and the jockeys. Horse racing is one the earliest gambling that I can because my father is a avid fan of it.

Up to know I still played, although in the last year or so I do bet as much because I don't have the time anymore. But it is still popular specially in December where there are a lot of special races and if you got lucky you will win thousands or even millions of dollars.

The reason for the banning of the kind of games is due to the save animals from treated badly and these was done by animal welfare organizations in some countries.But some other countries have brutal games of animals too for eg.Bull fighting in spain,but it was legal their and their governments also supports it because it is their tradition game.So all decision was taken by the respective governments based on the situation of their country.

Those countries where they already respect the rights of the animals really start banning types of games like this, from where am I, horse
racing still legal, the government still allowing this gambling and many people around here are really enjoying, most of them are  senior citizen,
they love to play and enjoy the game with their close friends taking this as their pass time.

yeah dude, glad to see them running. in my country is also legend by the government, whenever there is a horse race I always spend time there to gamble, I have some strategies to get the victory. I always see the hooves that will do the race and the luck is always on my side

Yeah different countries have different view over their traditional games and gambling.But in many countries the horse racing is the most famous part of gambling and also some countries banned the illegal bets like farming the groups between close friends or someone.

See, this is a sports betting and people are usually making good money in sports betting because there are strategies and tricks that can make you win the game. Your experience with the game matters here and usually people take right decision based on this.

I don’t know about horse race betting in my country but I know people bet on cricket a lot. That’s the most famous and most watched game here.

You bet, mate. These things are popular in Asia, saw this in the Philippines. Illegal, small betting outfits around the neighborhood, yet popular critters, it's good business.

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