Am I reading this right?
 

Guys I gotta be honest, I'm only chasing the late races at the FG and the holly pik-6 so I'm watching some football.
I just checked the Aqueduct 4th race payouts out on equibase and if those are indeed correct there needs to be some sort of investigation. That exacta is just horrendous, and the trifecta is laughable. Can anyone explain this to me coherently?

http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbQ...RN=4&STYLE=EQB

it seems mike there are a few 123 tri and ext box players..

LOL!!!
I realize that a few guys do that, but this is wild!!!!
If I had played that race and caught that tri, I'd be absolutely insane!!!
Thats gotta be one of the worst payouts I ever saw at a major thoroughbred track with large pools.
Looks like something you would see where the announcer says "they're off and pacing and on the outside the 2-5 shot favorite makes a break!!!"

You think enough guys do that a number at a track with pools that size in a ten horse field could pay that?
This smells incredibly bad.

even more distrubing was it was an 11 horse field...not like it was a 6-7 horse field...

Havent seen the PP's, but how does Jerkens/Coa get away at 10-1?

I'm PO'd cause I had the two on top of 1 and 9 for exacta and tri, so the 60:1 3 horse killed all that.

The payoff on the tri does seem low. My only theory is that since the race was absent a big favorite, most tri bettors had spread out much more than normal.

Or

It was something fishy!

The price on the Jerkens/Coa horse was a surprise, The works jumped off of the page.

1,2,3 tri box strikes again in the 6th.

i can just hear the chatter at OTB's across the land, "I'm playing 1,2,3 they're coming in all over today"

Dems my numbas...Dems my numbas!!!

"The numbers always repeat themselves" thats my favorite. "That number just ran at Meadows, I knew it was coming at Delta"

THEY WANT ME TO HAVE THAT ONE, TWO, THREE, THEY WANT TO ME HAVE THOSE NUMBERS!!!

"Play longshots man! They're coming in everywhere"

The 1-2-3 factor is very big but also all three horses were first time starters. The tri was in line with the exacta but the exacta was probably less than half of what it " should " have paid.

There are odd payoffs all the time. If it makes people feel better I will find out if any unusual betting patterns existed. I doubt it.

yeah oracle, just a house Q would have paid 631 bucks...... that tri should be 4 to 5 dimes:confused:

Maybe
 

For What Its Worth I Was At Calder Today Where A Guy Said He Was A Friend Of The 3's Trainer. He Said He Liked Him And To Use Him. Now Why He Was 60-1 I Cant Figure Out But For Example The Friend Hit The Quinella And Exacta And Went Nuts When He Saw The Lousy Payoff. In Case You Are Wondering I Cashed Nothing Because He Told Us All This After The Race!! He Is No Friend Of Mine But Maybe This Helps Explain Payoffs. Maybe Many Other Friends Keyed Him In Q's And Pers.

Another reason to stay out of exotics.

Pool size unknown, odds of winning combination thus payout unknown. We have beat this to death. They must have had the exacta payouts before they left the gate though...

At least you know a horse is 60-1 to win... even if you use that horse in exotics, it is not the same pool so you dont know what you are going to win.

I am educatedly dubious about this post.

completely false, the only ones that are impossible to figure out are pick threes/fours/sixs until the last leg when they show the payoffs. You have FULL access to exacta/quinella/DD will pays...Matter of fact, I know alot of heavy gamblers that look to these pools for advice sometimes, where people are trying to hide funds, especially in the DD's

There's a lot of " completely false " stuff, with more than a sprinkling of paranoia, running rampant in this thread.

Read what I typed Scavs, you have access to exactas, thats what my last sentence was about... What about tris Scavs? Again, MOST exotics do NOT give you access to what your winnings will be. Right or wrong?

you mean theres no" black box tote"..in the caverns of the big a printing out winning combos after the race...its cant be true.....i smell a story..lol

Well, of course that's true, but everything else is on the up and up.

The stable where the three came from sends out live 2yo's, the public ignored this one with reasonable works (as good as the 1 and 2) for whatever reason. Perhaps One Suit Oracle told everyone she has a lung infection and not to bet her.

..and the absolute worst betting scheme..telling old people at the otbs they should box 123 for a combined 60 perc of the pools....the scandal was traced back to a geritol box...the label subliminaly said box 123..under the' revive 's tired blood part"

It would actually be wonderful if we knew that the 1-2-3 tri's and exactas were overbet routinely to this degree. It would be an extremely powerful angle.

I'm sure someone must have looked at this in the past. It's so easy to do. You just look at the ROI for all exacta combos. If 1-2-3 is overbet enough by numbers players, it would stick out like a sore thumb (or, even more painfully, like a post that capitalizes the first letter of every word.)

--Dunbar

This payoff is appalling. If you had wheeled 2 with ALL it would have been an $18 bet, you would have gotten 21/1 on your money versus 11/1 in the win pool, or about a 2:1 multiplier, even with the extra takeout. Typically with the 3rd or 4th choice in a 10 horse field you'd get a 2:1 multiplier (versus with the 5/2 favorite you'd probably end up with a half to a third payoff, $80 ish). Ordinal rank means almost as much as the odds in this case; you have the 7th choice and and the 10th and longest choice. There are 90 possible exacta combinations and this would be about the 75th likeliest.

The trifecta payoff, even though it's tougher to determine "willpays", is ridiculously low as well.

But, Phil, the trifecta is NOT low relative to the exacta price.

I will get more information but it does not appear that anything sinister was going on.....believe it or not.

Did CC Lopez ride the favorite by any chance?

jose ferrer, maybe??:eek:

Same thing.

Agreed, you would expect about a 3X multiplier with a 11/2 choice in 3rd and that's what it got (people often overestimate the value of the 3rd slot- exacta pays $20 and a 20-1 finishes third "it should pay $400!" no stupid, $160 if you're lucky.) My "finger in the air" test says $550 and $1800, minimum. The favorite was ridden by Ramon Dominguez...

I wasn't going to reply to this but I've seen a lot of low payoffs in NY lately on intrarace bets. The multirace payoffs seem very much in line, I was shocked that someone actually picked 6 yesterday with no carryover but I suppose if you were clairvoyant enough to go deep in the two maiden races you could have had it as the others were all very logical. I don't believe there's any funny business going on but past-posting scares me. It could potentially destroy the game, and given the running of the race (the 2 taking a huge lead into the stretch) there's no reason someone with the ability to crack the pools couldn't punch a late bet or two, you know what i mean?

Not to mention the shockingly low payout on the pik-3 that ended in race 5.

Far less than half the parlay.
I find it sickening the people make jusice accusations all the time, and paranoid about so many things, yet when payouts like the ones we've seen the last 2-4 weeks are brought up, fears are dismissed.
This shakes peoples confidence in how on the level these races are far more than a late scrtach.

I find it shocking that someone wouldn't understand that a Jimmy Jerkens first time starter that won a race at 10-1 was significantly shorter in Pick-3 pools that were bet without the benefit of knowing the actual betting in a race full of first time starters.

If you actually looked through the entire relative sequence you would see that the two pick-3s that were bet with the 4th race odds " dark ", so to speak, were short the parlay while the one that began with the 4th, and thus showed the actual betting, paid well over the parlay.

similar type race odds at Calder saturday
 

I was at Calder saturday , and the only bet I hit all day was a similar odds type exacta as the Aqueduct race. It was the 2nd race on 12/2/06, a 7.90/1 over a 50/1 and paid $650 for the exacta and $3900 for the tri. it was a field of 11 maidens on the turf. When I saw the exacta of the Big A race, I thought I needed a pair of new specs and thought , yeah, thats why I dont play the NY inner track. I smell sulphur.

http://www.brisnet.com/cgi-bin/insta...6-12-02&race=2

I was always under the impression that the trifecta will pay anywhere between 3 and 4 times exacta. In this particular case the tri payout seems about right based on what the exacta paid. I will typically look at the exacta payouts to see if something weird is going on. In this example, the exacta will pay would have shown me that someone is playing this exacta combo. I would love to go back and see what the exacta will pay was on the 2 favorites. If I see a low exacta probable on two horses with huge odds and combine that with a high exacta probable payout on the two favorites then that tells me that I need to look at those two high odds horses again for my win bet.

This was less surprising because that horse was probably only worth 6-1 in the pick 3 (making the $114 more reasonable), logically you would HAVE to include that horse if you were casting a more-than-just-the-top-two net in the dark, which I would think most players did.

On the flip side, the pick 3 starting with the 4th race paid more than double the parlay amount ($3,907 vs. $1,844)

This is completely off base, it really depends on WHO finishes 3rd (and, who finishes 2nd!).
If an even money wins, a 5/2 finishes 2nd, and a 5/1 finishes 3rd in a 6 horse field, yeah you're probably going to get $12 for the exacta and $36 for the tri, but for an extreme example in the Derby the exacta paid $600 and the tri paid $10,000, with a very logical 15/1 (win odds) shot finishing third. He was "worth" 17/1 to show in the tri pool...