One of the most popular gambling is the horse racing which is not like any other gambling that exist. If you want better luck in the horse racing then the first thing you should keep in mind that you must have the recent horse betting news and you must have really good idea about horse betting. However many people often don’t have the correct concept of the horse betting as they are so many types of betting. Spread betting is one of the popular betting which might look difficult at the beginning but once you understand it properly, you will find it much interesting.
The main concept of the spread betting is more like if you bet is high or low. However as the horse racing goes along you will find several types of different bet that are open to you. The bets include The Favorite Index, Winning Distance, the Jockeys Index, Doubles, Winners Starting Prices and Matched Bets.
The Favorite Index
A Favorites spread bet is a calculation on the performance of the Favorites in each race at a meeting. Every Favorite that finish first is awarded with 25 points, 10 points for finishing second and 5 points will be awarded for finishing third.
Winning Distance
Winning distance is a spread bet where first and second position horse are calculated and each horse will awarded with 1 point per length it has won by.
The Jockeys Index
In this bet the points are awarded for the performances of the individual Jockeys at the meeting. The points are also awarded similar to Favorite Index. The winning will get 25 points, 10 for the second and 5 points for third position.
Double
Double or also known as Double Card spread bet is a calculation on the total of the race card numbers of all the winners, at a particular meeting, and it’s then multiplied by 2.
Matches Bet
This is the fun part of the bet and this is where the most fascinated horse is listed as first and less fascinated are listed as second in the meeting.
