Here are some tips for taking advantage of the long menu of wagers Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita
A horse trains Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, ahead of the Breeders’ Cup this weekend at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia. ARCADIA — Even as sports gambling expands, there’s still no event each year more tantalizing to bettors than the Breeders’ Cup thoroughbred races. Big, competitive fields offer enticing odds on star horses in seven-figure parimutuel pools. Backing the right combination of horses in any of the dozens of “exotic” wagers on the program can turn a few dollars into thousands.
The Breeders’ Cup has grown to two days and 14 races. Now fans can choose among win, place, show, exacta, trifecta, superfecta and high-five bets on individual races, plus a variety of doubles, pick-threes, pick-fours and pick-fives, and a pick-six each afternoon. “Money management has become more important than handicapping,” Bob Ike, the horse-racing handicapper and Thoroughbred Los Angeles radio host, said this week as we talked about the glut of multi-horse – exotic – wagers being offered. “Maybe there’s something to be said for making the old-school win bet on a horse if the right.”
Pay attention when one handicapper has a different opinion than the rest, because this may reflect the kind of unique insight upon which smart bets are made.
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