Bets Settler Pro
If you find that your new-found racing and betting knowledge goes to your head and you want to try an exotic bet, this handy app will do all the mathematical hard work for you by crunching the numbers on the various combinations of odds.
Not only will Bets Settler Pro help you to place a Goliath or a Super Heinz, it will also explain to you what these actually ARE, using its glossary.
Racing UK
Racing UK is a handy one-stop-shop for racing and betting news, aggregated from different news sources including newspapers and blogs.
With a monthly subscription you can also watch exclusive live coverage of race meetings from around the country. Subscribing to the app will also gain you free tickets to UK racecourses and other promotional offers.
Draw Names From A Hat
Let's be absolutely honest and up front here. If these apps could really guarantee you a Grand National Winner we wouldn't be making this list. We would be down at Cash Converters selling all our old phones (apart from the GALAXY Note II, obviously) to raise cash for the kind of accumulator bet that could kickstart our early retirement.
There are no guarantees in the world of racing and so you might think that you may as well to just draw the name of a horse from a hat and use that to place your bet. Happily, the Google Play store has you covered here as well, with the aptly named Draw Names From A Hat. Give it a list of the runners and it will do pretty much what you might expect.
Betting apps
Once you have decided which horse to back you need to place your bet and it would be handy if there was an app that would help you to do this on the Play store. Sadly, Google's policies prevent any apps which involve gambling from being distributed via Google Play.
Luckily, that doesn't actually matter! Providing, of course, that you are over 18 years old and have your own cash (and are fully aware of the dangers of losing it all involved in gambling big money!) then you can still enjoy a harmless little flutter now and then.
Go into Settings and then Security and you can turn on 'Unknown Sources' to let you install apps from sources other than the Play store app. Most of the major online bookmakers have Android apps just waiting to be downloaded to your SD card and installed. (Disclaimer: Note II users should be aware that downloading apps outside of Google Play means that their Note II is more vulnerable to attack by applications from unknown sources).
There are apps from the likes of William Hill, Ladbrokes, Betfair, Bet365 and others, all of which will let you place bets securely from your GALAXY Note II via 3G or Wi-Fi. Most of these will also come with offers involving free bets. The site BettingApps.co.uk has a handy list of apps and instructions for how to download and install them.
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