This week marks the newest installment of a brand new collection on America’s Finest Racing, the Newbie’s Guess of the Week, sponsored by NYRA Bets. Every week, this weblog will discover a brand new sort of guess by explaining precisely what it’s, how greatest to make use of that guess, and by placing the wager into observe in a race.
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We’ve spent the previous few weeks on this collection discussing “straight” wagers. Now, we’ll begin branching out into “unique” betting, beginning with NYRA’s hottest guess: the exacta.
The target of the exacta is to select the highest two finishers in a race. The minimal wager on the exacta is $1. As famous above, exactas are extraordinarily fashionable with bettors. On Saturday, Oct. 23, greater than $2.2 million was wagered on the ten exactas provided that day, representing 22.3% of wagering exercise.
Exactas are harder to hit than win, place, or present bets. It’s tougher to select the highest two finishers in a race, versus merely the highest horse. Nonetheless, with higher threat comes higher reward. On Oct. 23, the common $1 payoff on the exacta was $21.88, with a median return of $16.75.
Exactas could be performed a large number of how. The only approach is to play it “straight,” as in, one horse in first and one horse in second. For instance, in case you play a 1-2 straight exacta, that implies that the #1 has to complete in first, and the #2 has to complete in second.
You may as well “field” your numbers, albeit for the next price. When you play a 1-2 exacta field, meaning the #1 and #2 can end first or second in any order. A $1 exacta field has a complete price of $2. You possibly can field a number of horses as nicely; a three-horse exacta field prices $6; a four-horse field $24.
A number of horses can be utilized in numerous spots in an exacta. That is what’s generally known as a “half wheel”. Let’s say, for instance, that you simply actually just like the #1 horse, and suppose the #2, #3, and #4 all have a very good likelihood to complete second. You possibly can play an exacta with the #1 in first, and the #2, #3, and #4 all in second. That play would price a complete of $3 (1 X 3).
Saturday’s Belmont Park Exacta Play
Race 5 on New York Showcase day is the Hudson Handicap, for 3-year-olds and older at 6 ½ furlongs on the grime. There’s a number of outstanding names within the nine-horse area, together with Grade 1-placed Ny Traffic. My high decide is drawn one spot to his inside, #7 Our Final Buck. He gained the Say Florida Sandy Stakes towards New York-breds in January then went to the sidelines till late July. In his comeback race, he completed third within the John Morrissey Handicap at Saratoga then was a really recreation second towards open allowance-optional claiming horses final out. He has nice tactical velocity, and coach Michelle Nevin has been very sharp these days, successful at a 24% clip.
I’ll play him in an exacta, on high of two different horses. #4 Amundson has run two of his greatest races on a moist monitor, and the floor on Saturday could be very more likely to be sloppy. #5 Jemography closed to win the George Barker Stakes at Finger Lakes final out, and can most definitely sit an awesome journey proper off the tempo. To win this exacta guess, the #7 has to win and #4 or #5 should are available second. On a $1 base wager, this guess would price $2.
To put this guess with a teller, say “Belmont Park, Race 5, $1 exacta, #7 with #4 and #5”. When you’re enjoying on an ADW, you’ll want to examine off the #7 field within the first column, and the #4 and #5 field within the second column.
