How to Bet on Horse Racing: Beginners Guide to Placing a Bet, Glossary of Terms
SportsLine's beginner's guide to horse racing explains how to bet on a race. It explains the difference between exacta and daily double bets, trifecta bets and Pick 3 bets. The guide also explains horse betting terminology. SportsLine is using its expert handicappers to pick the big horse race and share their picks.
Trifecta bet is a bet on a horse to finish first in a race with multiple horses finishing second, third or fourth. Superfecta is bet using one horse. A-B-C-X method is used by many handicappers to make multirace bets. The method works by grouping all the horses in each race into four tiers: A (top horse), B (backup horses), C (deep backup horses) and X (throwouts). It's also used to choose the winners of two consecutive races. It works in the Pick 3, Pick 4, or Pick 5 way.
Joel Rosario is worth $35.2 million. Luis Saez is $32.9 million, Irad Ortiz Jr. $29.3 million and Jose Ortiz $24. 9 million are also worth money.
How to Bet on Horse Racing is a beginners guide to placing a bet. Flavien Prat is worth $23.1 million.
Brad Cox is the most successful horse racing trainer. Steve Asmussen is second, Chad Brown third and Todd Pletcher fourth.
Bob Baffert won the Triple Crown in 1919, 1930, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63, 64, 69, 68, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 78, 80, 79, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 122, 123, 134, 135, 145, 144, 155, 175, 146, 147, 150, 165, 170, 174, 185, 177, 178, 186, 183, 184, 205, 206, 215, 200, 225, 222, 223, 245, 226, 227, 228, 239, 233, 236, 237, 238, 240, 253, 252, 247, 254, 255, 256, 250, 246, 248, 249, 5, 6, 7, 4, 3, and 6.
Morning-line odds are the odds set by the track's oddsmaker prior to the opening of betting. Underlay is a horse with higher odds than bettors perceive to be fair value. Post position is the stall in the starting gate from which a race starts. The Beyer Speed Figure is most prevalent speed figure today. Join Jonathan Coachman on the Early Edge as he speaks with SportsLine's top handicappers to preview every day's biggest games. The podcast is under 10 minutes and in your feed every single day by 11 AM ET.
