The browser your are currently using is old and will decrease the website usability. Please upgrade it to a newer version. IE9-10+, Chrome or FireFox are recommanded. There are many types of bets, but the most common are: moneyline bets, spread bets, total bets, parlays, teasers and futures. In the beginning we will explain how to read betting lines and then we will deal with different types of bets. Betting line usually shows current odds or moneyline, point spread (handicap.

Win

A win bet is selecting a runner to finish 1st in a nominated race. You can choose to place a Tote Win bet where the price will continue to fluctuate up until the race start or a Fixed Odds bet where your price is locked in (subject to scratching’s etc)

Place

A place bet is selecting a runner to finish 1st, 2nd or 3rd (subject to the place dividend policy) in a nominated race. Your selection may finish in any of these positions. You can choose to place a Tote Win bet where the price will continue to fluctuate up until the race start or a Fixed Odds bet where your price is locked in (subject to scratching’s etc)

Trifecta

A Trifecta bet is selecting the runners that will finish 1st 2nd and 3rd in order, in a nominated race. You can also have an Allways Trifecta, meaning your runners can finish in any order for the bet to be successful.
Flexi Betting allows you to select multiple runners in a Trifecta and nominate the total amount you wish to spend. If successful, you will receive a percentage of the Trifecta dividend equal to the Flexi percentage of the bet you have placed.

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First 4

As the name suggests a First 4 bet is selecting the runners that will finish 1st 2nd, 3rd and 4th in order, in a nominated race. You can also have an Allways First 4, meaning your runners can finish in any order for the bet to be successful.

Flexi Betting allows you to select multiple runners in a First 4 and nominate the total amount you wish to spend. If successful, you will receive a percentage of the First 4 dividend equal to the Flexi percentage of the bet you have placed.

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Quaddie

A Quaddie bet is selecting the winner across four nominated races within a single race meeting.
You can take a multiple selections in a Quaddie and nominate the total amount you wish to spend which will give you a flexi bet. If your Quaddie is successful, you will receive a percentage of the Quaddie dividend equal to the Flexi percentage of the bet you have placed.

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Exacta

An Exacta bet is selecting the runners that will finish 1st and 2nd, in order, in a nominated race.

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Quinella

A Quinella bet is selecting the runners that will finish 1st and 2nd, in any order, in a nominated race.

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All Up

An All Up is a single bet which automatically reinvests winnings from one race to another.
You can include up to 6 legs in an All Up bet, take different Tote bet types in each leg (i.e. Win, Place, Each Way or Quinella) and have multiple selections in all or any of the legs.

All selections included in an All Up bet must be from the same race meeting.

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Insurance 2nd & 3rd

Insurance 2nd & 3rd is similar to a Win bet but with a twist.

For a slightly reduced price, you can back your winner for a race and get your stake back if your horse comes in 2nd or 3rd!

This market will be available on Australian Thoroughbred & Harness races that have a minimum of 8 runners, and will be made available within 45 minutes to jump time.

Head to Head

Head to Head provides a selection of two runners from the same race, and all you need to do is simply select which runner you think will beat the other past the post. As long as your runner finishes in the first four – you’re a winner!

This market will be available on most Australian & New Zealand races across all codes.

Half vs Half

Half vs Half splits the field into two based on the runners’ saddle blanket numbers, and lets you select whether one of the runners from either grouping will win the race.

This market will be available on Australian & New Zealand races that have a minimum of 8 runners.

Runner vs Field markets

Runner vs Field markets gives you the choice to back the favourite in the race, or to bet against the favourite by backing the rest of the field.

This market will be available on Australian Metro Thoroughbred races, and will be made available within 2 hours to jump time.

Punters enjoy many bet types. . They have a vast range, right from the most basic option of a win single to the more complicated combinations of things like full cover and conditional bet types.

Use this betting guide to help you sort through it all with clear, easy to understand explanations of all the different bet types that you may come across.

Types of Bets

The most simple types of bets are a Win, Place or Each-Way option;

Win

A single win bet selects one outcome to happen from an event, like the winner of a football match or an F1 Grand Prix. This requires just one stake on a winning option.

Place

A place bet backs a selection to finish (place) within a range of finishing positions set by a bookmaker. It could be the top five places of the US Masters golf or the top three in a horse race.

Each-Way

An each-way bet has two options covered within it. You need two unit stakes, one to cover the outright win option and the other to cover a place option.

Single Bet

One single bet of any type. They use just one unit stake.

Multiple Bet

When you combine more than one selection together under one single unit stake that is a multiple bet . The appeal of this bet type is that it offers higher returns because more risk is at as the bet grows. You get returns from the first leg of a multiple and use them as the stake for the second leg and so on.

The cumulative odds can stack up to create higher payouts.

Double

If you link two single selections together that is a double bet. If the first selection wins, the returns go as the stake for the second selection. Both options have to win.

Treble

Three single selections in one bet under one stake. The treble bet type is a multiple. Any returns from the previous leg of the bet are used as the stake for the next. Therefore all three selections need to win.

Accumulator

This is a bet with four or more selections (legs) in it. Accumulators can pay out big returns but they are high-risk. All legs need to win for it to be successful. The returns from the previous leg are the stake for the next, as with all multiple bet types.

Full Cover Bet

A full cover bet is where more than one selection is together to build whatever combination of multiples can be made from the number of selections. This includes any doubles, trebles and accumulators.

However many multiple bets made from the selections, they will each require an individual unit stake. Full cover bets do not include the selections as win singles.

Trixie

A Trixie bet is a form of a full cover bet type from three selections, it creates multiples and no singles.

Yankee

In a Yankee bet, four selections combine for all possible creations of multiples from the picks.

Canadian / Super Yankee

A Canadian bet or a Super Yankee. There are 5 selections used to create any multiple bets available.

Heinz

A Heinz bet is a full cover bet of six selections, creating all the possible combinations of doubles, trebles and accumulators.

Super Heinz

A step up from the Heinz is the Super Heinz has seven combined selections.

Goliath

A Goliath bet brings eight selections together to create all multiple options.

Full Cover Bet With Singles

As the name suggests, a Full Cover bet with singles simply adds the individual selections on to a full cover bet type. This allows every option, all singles, doubles, trebles and accumulators to be put together in a bet.

Each bet created with a full cover bet with singles type needs an individual unit stake played.

Patent

A Patent is a variant of a Trixie bet, which like it, uses only three selections but the Patent version includes the singles.

Lucky 15

A Lucky 15 is a popular type of bet for horse racing. Four selections combine for all singles and multiples possible.

Lucky 31

The Lucky 31 is a version of the Canadian (Super Yankee) with the singles also included in the bet along with the multiples. It has five selections.

Lucky 63

There are six selections, as in a Heinz create all multiple combinations, but the Lucky 63 includes the singles too.

Alphabet

Alphabet has six selections combine to make 26 bets. The six selections create two Patents, a Yankee and a 6-fold accumulator. A Patent has seven bets (x2), a Yankee has 11 bets and the one bet of the 6-fold acca tallies up to the number 26.

Conditional (Any To Come) Bet

Conditional bets rely on something happening before another action happens. For example, you make two selections and if there are returns from the first selection, then the returned stake will be used on the second selection.

If the first selection loses then the second selection will not play. This is an ATC (Any To Come) bets. A “if cash” bet is what we call this.

Up and Down

An Up and Down bet are from just two singles. Create two bets and each has two parts.

Part A: If the first selection wins, then the returned stake goes on the second selection in the bet. Part B: If the second selection wins, then the returned stake goes on the first selection. There are two reverse bets of each other.

Round Robin

The selections used to create ten bets. The basic premise of a round-robin is that it is a Trixie plus x3 up and down bets that they add on to it.

Flag

A flag bet is an enhanced Yankee where up and down bets (six of them) added onto the multiples created.

Super Flag

A Super Flag bet is from five selections (as there is in a Canadian), with the addition of up and down bets on top. This creates 46 separate bets.

Rounder

There are three selections create a Rounder. If there is cash coming back from a winning single, the original stake goes into a double bet. All singles and variations of doubles are played in the bet sequence.

Roundabout

The Roundabout is a step up from the Rounder in which if a single bet wins, the stake from it is doubled to be placed on a double bet.

Specialty Bet

A unique betting slip or system is aspecialty bet type.

Union Jack

This type has nine selections laid out in a 3×3 grid done on a special betting slip. Each vertical line and each horizontal line creates a treble, for a total of eight treble wagers. Seven winners will guarantee a return in a Union Jack bet.

System Bets

In a System Bet is a number of selections between 3 and 8. From the inital selections they get multiple bet types (the punter decideds the type).

In the example of a 2/5 system bet, it creates five selections and produces all combinations of doubles. In a 3/5 system bet, again uses five selections, but to create all possible trebles.

Forecast Bet

This is a popular bet type for horse racing and greyhounds. In a forecast bet you make selections on the same betting slip from a single race, predicting the exact finishing order of the top two.

You can make variations of this such as naming the selections to finish in either order in the top two, or naming several selections out of which the top two will come.

Tab Horse Racing Bet Types

Straight Forecast

A straight forecast is a single bet when you make two selections for a single event, say a horse race. This bet type requires the prediction of the exact finishing order of the top two.

Reversed Forecast

A reverse forecast bet, a straight forecast with the reverse finish also included. Two selections can be made and the options it creates are for the finish of either 1-2 or 2-1 in a race. This requires two-unit stakes because of the extra option.

Combination Forecast

The combination forecast bet type is predicting the exact finishing order of the top two in an event. However, you can select multiple options instead of just two and any combination of your selections finishing in the top two wins. The more selections, the higher the unit stake is multiplied.

Tricast

The Tricast is a bet which calls for a prediction on the correct finishing order of the top three in an event. A single stake goes on the call of an exact 1-2-3. This is only one bet. It requires only the one unit stake.

Combination Tricast

The top three finishers in the exact order are the target in a Combination Tricast. However, you can make more than three selections on the bet slip. The more selections added to the bet, the more the unit stake will be multiplied by.

Tab Nz Bet Types

Tote Bet

The premise of any Tote wager is pool betting. For a given event, punters wager their stakes into a pot. Therefore, after the bookmaker takes their cut from that pot, then it is the value of that pot which then sets the dividends.The Tote payouts based on dividends and not fixed odds, this is the big difference between Tote and regular betting. So, the amount of stake received on a horse divides by the overall value of the Tote pot for the given race. That number will set the dividend-price if that horse wins, and then you multiply your units of stake by the dividend.

There is a wide variety of Tote bets and most of them have similarities with regular fixed odds betting, but just operate off the pool betting system instead.

Tote Win

You make a selection when you pick the winner of a horse race.

Tote Place

The selection made in a horse race for a Tote Place has to finish in a designated Place in the race, usually the top two or top three.

Each Way Tote

Tab Bet Types Meaning

This combines the Win & Place Tote best together. The Win and the Place have separate dividends, paid out depending on where your selection finishes.

Tote Exacta

This is the same as a Forecast in regular betting, you predict the top two finishers in a race in the exact order.

Trifecta

The Trifecta is the same as a Tricast in regular betting. They must forcast the top three finishers in the exact order.

Quadpot

This type of Tote Bet calls for the four winners of four consecutive races on predetermined races.

Placepot

This is a prediction of six winners from six races, and therefore more than one selection can be made for each race.

Jackpot/Scoop6

Jackpot and Scoop6 are prize pools, where punters will be playing for a share of a prize pot. You must predict the six winners of the designated races.

Tote Swinger

Tab Bet Types Crossword Clue

A unique bet is a Tote Swinger. You make two nominations in a race and you have to have them place in any order in the top three.

Tote Superfecta

Tab Bet Types Beat

One of the most difficult Totes to win as it asks for the correct prediction of the top four finishers in a race.