A day at the races
Race 1 of 8
Out of money. Start a new meeting to go again.
They're at the gate.
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—Hash this and you get the seal you were shown before the off.
Weighed in
Every horse in the yard. Wins and runs, then the same count split by ground, by surface and by distance. Click a row to see its last eight races, and the box on the left to mark one, the way you would in a programme. Marked horses carry the mark and whatever you wrote onto every card they run on.
| Mark | Horse | Form | Style | Record | Firm | Soft | Dirt | Turf | AW | Spr | Mid | Stay |
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Pick the winner of two, three or four races in a row, all of it decided before the first of them runs. Take more than one horse in a leg and you buy every combination through it, which is what multiplies the ticket. These pay a good deal better than anything on a single card, because they are a good deal harder.
If you have never bet on a horse in your life, start here. It takes about two minutes and then the card makes sense.
The soundscape is on to begin with and the music is not. Out on the front page the weather is the thing you are listening to, and a tune over the top of it turns the weather into a bed underneath a tune. Put it on if you would rather have it.
You start with a thousand dollars. A meeting is eight races. Before each one you pick a horse, choose how much to put on it, and watch. You can back more than one horse in the same race.
The card is a lot to look at. Give it a minute or two and it comes apart into the same few facts about every horse; everything below makes more sense after that.
The number next to each horse is its price. It tells you what you get back.
5/1 pays five dollars for every one you stake, and you get your stake back too. Ten dollars on a 5/1 winner returns sixty.
1/2 pays fifty cents on the dollar. Ten dollars returns fifteen.
Small numbers mean the horse is expected to win. Big numbers mean it is not. The shortest price in a race is the favourite. The longest is the outsider.
Each one is easier than the one above it, so each one pays less. A horse at 8/1 to win might be 5/2 to place and 6/5 to show. You can have all three on the same horse if you want, or back four different horses to show and hope three of them run into the money.
Everything above asks which horse is best. These ask what the race will look like, which is a harder question and pays like one. Choose the kind of bet along the top of the tray and the card changes: instead of three prices you get one button per horse, and you tap them in the order you think they will finish.
These are quoted as what a dollar comes back as rather than as odds, because the numbers get too big for fractions. Where a win bet says 8/1, an exacta says $84.50, and that is the whole of what one dollar returns.
Boxing covers every order of the horses you picked. A trifecta box on three horses wins if those three fill the first three places in any order at all, and it costs six times as much, because you are buying six tickets. Four horses is twenty four tickets. It goes up faster than people expect.
Open Doubles and picks from the tray. You name the winner of two, three or four races in a row, and all of it is decided before the first of them runs. Take two horses in a leg and you have bought every combination through it, so the ticket costs twice as much and is twice as likely to survive.
A strip above the tray keeps hold of these while the afternoon goes on. Each leg fills in as it is run, and it will tell you how many you have left.
Tap the coloured number on the left of any horse to see its last eight races in full: where, how far, what the ground was, how far it was beaten, and its price.
Today's going is at the top of the card next to the surface, and every run in the form book carries the going it was run on. The words run from dry to wet.
The temperature is on the card next to the going, and on every run in the form book, so you can see what it was the day a horse ran.
Kept on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere and there is nothing to sign in to.
Your money carries from one day to the next. Go broke and you are staked again with nothing held against you, and the run that ended goes in the book.
Every winner you backed at eight to one or better.
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