horse
racing spread betting
types of horse racing bets:
favourites index
how will the favourites perform in each race at a particular
meeting?
a winning favourite is awarded 25 points, a second place
10 points and a third place 5 points.
in the event of a race starting with joint favourites,
we take the favourite as being the horse with the lower
racecard number.
winning distances
this, as the name suggests, is where we predict what the
total winning margins will be at a meeting.
the maximum winning distance for a flat race is 12 lengths
while a national hunt race is 30 lengths. this also applies
should only one horse complete the race. distances under
a length are recorded as follows:
short head = 0.1 of a length
head = 0.2 of a length
neck = 0.3 of a length
half a length = 0.5 of a length
3/4 of a length = 0.75 of a length
in this market whole points are divided into tenths. if
you go high (buy) with £10 a point then it will be
£1 a tenth.
jockey index
similar to the favourites and heavyweights markets with
25 points awarded for a winning ride, 10pts for second and
5pts for third.
sporting
index will quote a price for a jockey (or jockeys)
at a meeting depending on how many rides.
if for any reason the jockey on whom the bet was made does
not ride his intended mount in a race, but the horse still
runs, then the horse still counts as if it had been ridden
by the ?named? jockey.
heavyweights
this is a market on the performance of racecard number
1s for a days racing at a particular meeting.
the racecard number 1 in each race is awarded 25 points
for winning, 10 points for coming second and 5 points for
third.
racing post favourites index
this is based on the same principle as the favourites index
but the favourites are those printed first in the betting
section below each race card in the racing post.
again these horses are awarded points as follows: 1st=25points,
2nd=10pts, 3rd=5pts. f there are joint favourites the first
named horse in the racing post will be deemed to be the
favourite.
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