Re: Thoroughbred Horse Racing [Merged]
Great work RT, very generous of you to be doing this for PRE. Hope we make a packet !
Blood_17 said:
As a well-known tipster (?) but one who has never taken up betting, can you explain the terms Superprice etc to me, please Remote? For instance, if I give one horse for a win on Saturday, would the $10 go on as Superprice? I know nothing at all about this subject. Call me dense!
I'll see if can help with this one, so please correct/adjust as needed.
Superprice is basically a Corporate Bookmakers option based upon giving you the best of 2 of the state base totes (ie. SuperTAB in Vic, RaceTAB in NSW or UniTAB in QLD).
I have a Sportsbet account so the language is slightly different. The offer what is called Country Best price for race meetings other than on Saturday's main race day (ie. non metropolitan meetings). That is then the best tote price for either SuperTAB or RaceTAB.
They also offer a City Best price for city race meetings which is the best price of all the 3 totes mentioned.
So, in the case of a City Best price option, if say your winner pays $15.40 SuperTAB, $17.60 RaceTAB and $11.95 UniTAB. You will be paid the best tote which would be the $17.60 from RaceTAB.
Now, the other options you can nominate are Fixed Price and Top Fluctuation.
Fixed price is generally reserved by most online bookmakers for the bigger, listed feature races. These are generally made available to see on their websites for those races (eg. the Slipper and the BMW both have Fixed price odds already displayed). On race day, in between races the bookies set a fixed price option, so if you take that thius stays fixed regardless of how it moves after that point or what the totes pay (just like the at the track).
Top Fluctuation is based upon the highest fixed price odds declared between races. If a horse say opens at $25/1 and drops to $15/1 and then blows back out to $30/1 before they jump, the Top Fluctuation would be the $30/1.
It's generally simplest to nominate the Superprice (or City Best type) option. However, you can often find the fixed price fluctuations are better than what the totes eventually pay when they jump. All makes for part of the fun.
...................... Phew .................take a breath ............ hope that's close to the money !
PS. If we can get a few big odds like used above, woo hoo ;D