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Racing & Pari-Mutuel
Racing has the densest private vocabulary in gambling. Form figures, going descriptions and race classifications are compressed notations that carry a great deal of information in very few characters.
Start with the form line, since reading it unlocks most of a racecard. Then the going, which describes the state of the ground and changes how a race is likely to run. Racing-specific bets such as each-way and the placepot come last, because they build on both.
All terms in this category
72 terms sit in this category, grouped by the game they belong to. All of them are written.
Racing odds · A–P (48)
- Allowance race
- Beaten favourite
- Course and distance
- Each way betting
- Exacta
- Exacta box vs quinella
- Exacta horse
- Exacta horse racing
- Exacta straight
- Exacta vs trifecta vs superfecta
- Exacta wheel
- Exacta wheel vs exacta key
- Final furlong meaning
- Finish line horse game
- Form horse racing
- Funny horse racing terms
- Furlong
- Furlong horse racing
- Furlong to km
- Going horse racing
- Greyhound racing betting
- Greyhound racing cards
- Greyhound racing (UK)
- Handicap horse racing
- Horse betting terms
- Horse racing betting
- Horse racing NS meaning
- Horse racing odds explained
- Horse racing program explained
- Horse racing terms and phrases
- Horse racing terms for winning
- Horse racing terms strands
- Horse racing tote
- Horse racing weights explained
- Jockey weights explained
- Live greyhound betting
- Maiden
- Nap (horse racing tipster selection)
- Overround horse racing
- Pari mutuel
- Pari mutuel machine
- Pari-mutuel betting example
- Pari-mutuel horse racing
- Pari-mutuel meaning lottery
- Pari-mutuel payouts
- Pari-mutuel slot machine
- Perfect trifecta meaning
- Photo finish horse racing
Racing odds · Q–T (24)
- Quinella
- Quinella horse racing
- Quinella meaning in English
- Quinella payout
- Quinella vs quinella box
- Quinella wheel
- Starting price horse racing
- Stewards inquiry
- Superfecta
- Superfecta odds
- Superfecta payout
- Superfecta wheel
- Tote betting
- Tote placepot
- Tote trifecta
- Tote UK
- Tote win
- Trifecta
- Trifecta betting
- Trifecta horse racing payout
- Trifecta payout chart
- Trifecta quinella
- Trifecta wheel vs box
- Types of bets in horse racing
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