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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
The gist of multi-tickets is to allow yourself a good chance to hit the Pick-6 if you are " very " right in five races and wrong in the other race, or maybe even four races if you are spending a lot of money.
Imagine you play the Pick-6 and in the first leg you think two horses look very strong and if you were going to spend a little more money you see a third you would at least like to use. Well, as you prefer the first two horses, you would not be spending your money well if you used this third idea for the same total dollars you used the on your " main " two selections. Thus you construct multiple tickets where on perhaps one major ticket you use all three but on smaller tickets you only use the two " main " selctions.
It's obviously more complicated as you go through more races but we can certainly discuss that. The basic formula is you have three lists, A horses, B horses and C horses. Every race CAN, but does not have to, have horses in each category. The construction from there is a MAIN ticket which includes A and B horses from every race and backup tickets which includes the C horses from one race and only the A horses from every other race. If you have C horses in each race you will have six back-up tickets.
The above can be further complicated with double backups as well. But, for now, we will stick to the single back-up concept.
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My main confusion when trying to structure tickets like this is which horses to put in the B and C category. For instance, what category would you put these following examples in:
Horse 1 - First time turf starter that doesn't look particularly good unless he improves on the turf but has Prado aboard.
Horse 2 - 25/1 shot that you think is a huge overlay at those odds.
Horse 3 - 3/1 shot that you don't like at all.
Is 1 an example of what sort of horse you want on your C ticket or should that be a B? Do you play 3 on your C ticket or not at all?