|
|
 |
|
#1
06-22-2011, 02:29 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Early Bookmaking
Here is a 90-year-old column about the very early days of bookmaking in American racing that I read a few months ago.
It would appear as though multi-race wagering in America actually got its start at the 1877 Saratoga meet - in the form of a 100/1 fixed-odds, $10 minimum, Pick 5 wager that didn't award conso's or move you to the favorite in the case of a late scratch.     
|
|
#2
06-22-2011, 02:29 PM
|
||||
|
||||
   Nice call by Durkin in the 6th.
|
|
#3
06-22-2011, 02:43 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
100/1 on a five horse parlay?
They should have been tarred and feathered by the betting public.
|
|
#4
06-22-2011, 02:45 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
|
|
#5
06-22-2011, 02:54 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Still having trouble getting top barns from the west to come to the Spa. Nothing has changed
|
|
#6
06-22-2011, 02:56 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
A lot of cool stories about new bookmakers from around the time of the early 1900's - especially in the Mid West and Far West. They talked about how guys who were actually sharp handicappers from that region got into bookmaking - but were clueless on the ins and outs of it. In a couple of cases - these bookmakers opened horses at odds as high as 40/1 - that twenty minutes later - would go off favored in the race. In an overall climate like that - it would seem easy as hell to make a lot of money betting.
|
|
#7
06-22-2011, 02:57 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#8
06-22-2011, 03:09 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Here is what bookmaking in American racing has been reduced to ... yesterday's last race at Presque Isle....
Early:  Late: 
|
|
#9
06-22-2011, 03:43 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Show the actual American pools....I took one look at the pools on DRF a few weeks ago and kept right on going. Any decent bet is basically playing against yourself. No thanks.
|
|
#10
06-22-2011, 03:53 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
$15,000 in the win pool $16,673 in the exacta pool ... but there were two late scratches in the race - including the heavy favorite.
http://www1.drf.com/drfPDFChartRaces...=20110621&RN=8 But yeah, you have to get pretty creative if you want to make big wagers at a track like that. The pools aren't any better on the weekends - in fact, they're worse. Shame too, because super speed favoring synthetic tracks with live rails are as good as it gets for wagering conditions IMO.
|
|
#11
06-22-2011, 03:54 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#12
06-22-2011, 03:56 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
No worries, money up front, and I'll book your action.
|
|
#13
06-22-2011, 04:00 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#14
06-22-2011, 04:09 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
That's HANA's job last I checked.
I believe they surged from 66th out of 69 tracks all the way to 61st out of 69. Big year.
|
|
#16
06-22-2011, 04:21 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#17
06-22-2011, 04:55 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
 - I am sure your tips would defo generate a positive ROI especially with betfair odds!!!
__________________
 #Grand
|
|
#18
06-22-2011, 06:09 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Will do. This is about as specialized a race track as any I've ever seen. Would be wonderful if the Betfair competition really was a bunch of dopey Euro College kids like Randall thinks - but I don't think that's the case.
|
Linear Mode
