Entertainment

Guide to Betting on Horse Racing

Published

4 years ago

January 21, 2019

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While sports betting is immensely popular, horse racing is still incredibly important for gambling enthusiasts and the packed calendar provides many opportunities to get in on the action. There are many betting sites to choose from but also a number of bets available to punters. Understanding the terminology is key when placing a bet though, to maximise your chances and ensure you’re not committing to the wrong thing. Here’s a guide to the terms, types of bets and how to know what you’re wagering on. If you’re new to betting, don’t forget to check for sign up bonuses and offers.

Odds

Odds relate to the amount of money you get back in return for your stake. Fractional odds let you know how much you get in return without your stake, while decimel odds have your stake included. For example, odds of 7/1 on a £10 bet will give you 7 x £10, so £70 in winnings plus your £10 back, resulting in £80 overall. But in decimal form, that bet would be 8.000 so £10 at 8.000 would be a return of £10 x 8 totalling £80.

To Win

The most basic and simple bet is a ‘win’ bet, which is a single bet on a horse that you’re backing to win. If it finishes in first, you’ll get a pay-out – if it doesn’t, you won’t.

Betting Each Way

Each-way bets are two bets on the same horse – you are placing half your total stake on the horse to win and half on it to place. If your selection wins, you win both parts of the bet and the place portion of the bet is paid as a fraction of the win odds. The fraction of the odds on the place bet depends on the race type and how many horses are racing – there needs to be a minimum of five runners to bet each way.

Place Only Betting

If you’re betting place only, you can bet on a horse to place without the win aspect of the wager. For example, you might not want to bet a heavy odds-on horse, but you still think they’ll finish second or third.

Win and Each Way Betting Strategy

It’s rarely worth backing a horse each-way if the odds are less than 4-1, as if the best return you can receive for the place portion is a quarter of the odds, you need at least 4-1 to cover the loss of the win portion of your bet. It’s worth being cautious with each-way betting as bookmakers will try to lure punters with extra places on a handicap race with 20 or more runners. But the likelihood of getting place returns is higher if you limit the each-way betting to non-handicap races of between 8 and 12 runners.

Multiple Betting

If you’re a more confident gambler, you may want to dabble with multiple bets, also known as accumulator. These are difficult to win as they require a lot of factors to go in your favour, but when they do you can make a lot of money, even from small stakes. There are different types of multiple bets, so you bet on anything from combination of two results to an eight-horse accumulator.

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Cabaret, Talks and Concerts For April

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15 hours ago

March 23, 2023

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Spring, makes us gather as much sun as possible, but it also brings rain and it’s time to hop inside and catch your favorite performer. Here are our picks for April.

92 Street Y: 1395 Lexington Ave. 4/11: Apple TV+’s The Last Thing He Told Me: Jennifer Garner and Laura Dave; 4/19: Al Pacino in Conversation with David Rubenstein (In-Person); 4/30: Celebrating Balanchine: A Screening, Book Reading, Conversation and Performance with Director Connie Hochman, Heather Watts, Jennifer Homans, Tiler Peck, Unity Phelan, and Calvin Royal III Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of George Balanchine’s Death (In-Person)

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Birdland Jazz: 315 West 44 St. Every Monday at 9:30pm Jim Caruso’s Cast Party; Every Tuesday at 8:30pm The Lineup with Susie Mosher; Every Saturday at 7pm Eric Comstock with Sean Smith (Bass) & special guest Barbara Fasano (Voice); 4/1: Eliane Elias; 4/3: Susie Mosher & John Boswell in CASHINO; 4/17: Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller: “Sin Twisters: The Next Frontier”; 4/17: Sean McDermott & Cassidy Place; 4/21 – 22: Tony DeSare; 4/24: Karen Akers and 4/25 – 29: John Pizzarelli Album Release

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Jessica Chastain Strips Down Bare A Doll’s House and is Luminescent

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March 23, 2023

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In watching Jamie Lloyd’s version of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, it feels like a scene study class. The set is stripped bare, there are no props, no costumes, no curtain, no children except their voices and no touching. On the wall is written 1879 and what was three acts is now one hour and fifty minutes, no intermission.

Jessica Chastain, is Nora who enters and sits on a wooden chair as the turntable circles about 15 minutes before the play starts. Slowly the other characters enter and sit with their backs to Nora.

Arian Moayed and Jessica Chastain in A Doll’s House. Courtesy of A Doll’s House

The play starts as her husband Torvald (Arian Moayed), has been given a promotion at the bank where he works. At first Nora seems frivolous spending money they do not have yet for Christmas presents, for everyone but herself. She is scolded, then indulged as her husband controls her world, as do all the men around her. When Kristine (Jesmille Darkbouze), an old childhood friend returns needing a job, she makes Nora also feel like her life is trivial, until Nora confesses she secretly borrowed money years ago when Torvald was sick and has been paying it off. Torvald is about to fire Krogstad (Okieriete Onaodowan), but we find out he was who loaned Nora the money and that she forged her father’s name on the promissory note, which is a crime. If this secret gets out it will ruin the whole family.

Nora turns to her her husband’s best friend Dr. Rank (the wonderful Michael Patrick Thornton) for help. Their chemistry is undeniable, but he tells her he loves her breaking the boundries and she can not confess to her indiscretion with the signature. Dr Rank sees Nora for who she is and tells her he is about to die pushing her to the edge.

Trying her best to stop what is inevitable Nora decides to commit suicide. She is sure Torvald will give up everything due to his love for her. Instead she learns and wakes up to the truth. She has and will always be controlled by men. The pattern started with her father and when Torvald learns the truth, instead of being on her side, he berates her with hate. When Krogstad has a change of heart and decides not to blackmail the family, Torvald turns back to wanting his wife, but the truth has opened up her eyes to a world she does not and can not live it.

Chastain starts off low key and like an onion, peels down to the core. She subtly steals your heart and has you cheering for her. She is seriously one fabulous actress, with her face conveying everything. She should win the Tony for this performance. Moayed as Torvald comes off as weak and ineffectual. You never understand why Nora has given everything to this man. Onaodowan gives off villainy vibes until he shows us Krogstad pain and heart. Thornton as Dr Rank, steals nearly every scene.

The language feels too contemporary and Lloyd’s directing choices are not always effective, but Amy Herzog’s adaptation really made me feel the power of the text.

The end made me want to break out and sob. Men, still really do not see us or the small sacrifices we make or the large ones done in secret to better their lives. We love them, but we need to start loving ourselves.

A Doll’s House: Hudson Theatre, 141 West 44th Street until June 10th