Betting is, by its very nature, a challenge where we lose more often than we win. If it wasn’t, then bookmakers would all soon be out of business. Yet they’re not, so the facts are there to suggest that in general it is the bookies that make a profit. We accept that before we place a wager it’ll be a bonus if we can win slightly more than we lose. Nevertheless, it would be nice if we could get an extra bonus when we pull off a significant win.
Betfred have long been supporters of racing, particularly in Britain, sponsoring big races such as the Epsom Derby and the Cheltenham Gold Cup amongst others. As a result of this backing the company has done its utmost to ensure that its horse racing coverage is up there with the best in the business. Part of that includes coming up with offers and promotions that racing lovers will respond to favourably and these two bonus features do just that.
What Do the Offers Entail?
The two offers work slightly differently from each other, so here’s what each one is about:
All Correct Bonuses
Lucky 15/31/63 bets, Yankees, Canadians and Heinz bets are all complex multiples that involve numerous bets in mixes of singles, doubles and more. Betfred’s offer rewards winners of those types of bets by adding a bonus to selections that feature nothing but winners. In other words, if all your selections win, you can get an extra reward for them doing so.
I talked about horse racing in the intro largely because of Betfred’s attempts to improve their coverage of the sport. The beauty of this offer is that it applies to more than just real-life horse racing. You can also take advantage of the All Correct Bonuses offer if you bet on virtual horse racing, greyhound racing or virtual greyhound racing.
One Winner Bonuses
Once again, this offer applies to both horse racing and greyhound racing, however virtual racing is excluded for this. Unlike the all-correct bonus, this promotion is applied to Lucky 15/31/63 bets that only have one winner. The odds for that single bet winner will be multiplied by 3, 4, or 5 times, depending on the bet that you have placed.
You may have spotted that there is another key difference here to the bonus for every selection winning, the exclusion of Yankees, Canadians, and Super Yankees. The reason for this is that Lucky 15/31/63 bets have singles included, in addition to the various multiples. Yankees, Canadians and Super Yankees do not have singles, therefore just one winner results in a losing bet and thus couldn’t qualify for this concession.
How Do the Bonuses Break Down?
The manner of the bonus on each offer is, understandably, different. I’ll look at each in turn here:
All Correct Bonuses
You’ll no doubt have noticed that I wasn’t specific in the bonus amount that would be added to your winning multiples in the section above. That’s because the size of the type of bets placed alters how much of a bonus you’ll be paid out. Here’s what you need to know on that front:
| Multiple Bet Type | Bonus Applied |
|---|---|
| Lucky 15 / Yankee bet | 10% |
| Lucky 31 / Canadian bet | 20% |
| Lucky 63 / Heinz bets | 25% |
Provided that all of your selections within your bet are winners, that’s the bonus amount that will be added, in cash, to your winnings. One thing to note is that the bonus amount is only paid on winnings, which is to say you won’t get any bonus on your original stake.
One Winner Bonuses
It would be difficult to pay a percentage of the bet when there’s only one winner. That’s why the one winner bonus offer abandons that notion altogether and, instead, pays out a multiplication of the odds for the one winning bet within your multiple. Here’s how that works:
| Multiple Bet Type | Bonus Applied |
|---|---|
| Lucky 15 | 3 x the odds for the one winner |
| Lucky 31 | 4 x the odds for the one winner |
| Lucky 63 | 5 x the odds for the one winner |
In other words, if you make a Lucky 63 bet and only one of your selections ends up as a winner then you’ll find you’re paid out at five times the odds you were originally given. Say for that your initial selection was given odds of 5/1, you’d be paid out at 25/1 if that was the only selection that came home for you. Again, all winning are paid in cash.
Anything Else You Need to Know?
As is so often the case with these sorts of promotions, there are a few additional things you’ll want to know about ahead of time. More than anything else, I’m telling you this is to stop you being confused about why you haven’t received your bonus because you did something you didn’t realise was an issue. It’s happened to me more than once!
One of the key point for both offers is that all of your selections must run in order for you to receive the bonus amounts. If even one of your horses or greyhounds is either withdraw or doesn’t run for some other reason then you’ll unfortunately not be eligible for either offer. You’ll still be paid out as normal if the rest of your horses win, of course, but you won’t get the bonus amount or the multiplied odds.
For the all correct bonus, you technically haven’t backed all winners if there is a void selection. For the one winner bonus, a void bet will mean that you will already essentially have two single bets on the one winner (a single and a double with one void selection), so this won’t be multiplied.
Something else worth a mention that applies in both cases is the fact that you will not be able to take advantage of these offers if you place your multiple bet using a free bet token. Betfred do numerous offers, promotions and bonuses on a range of sports but if you use a free bet, in general bonuses will not be applied. This is true for most bookies also.
For these offers specifically, if you’re hoping for an extra 10, 20 or 25% bonus on your winnings on one of these multiples when they’re all victorious, however, then you shouldn’t place the wager with a free bet. Equally, you won’t get your 3, 4 or 5 times the odds for one winner if a free bet token was used to place the bet in the first place.
As mention above, it is important to note that whilst the 10%, 20% and 25% bonus for all winners can apply to virtual horses and greyhounds as well as real horse races and greyhounds, you cannot get 3, 4, 5 times the odds for one winner with a virtual racing bet.