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TAB - Totalisator Agency Board. The body
appointed to regulate off-course betting (bets made by people who are
not present at the race track).
- Take (Takeout) - Commission deducted from mutuel
pools which is shared by the track, horsemen (in the form of purses)
and local and state governing bodies in the form of tax.
- Taken Up - A horse pulled up sharply by his rider
because of being in close quarters.
- The Jockey Club - An organization dedicated to
the improvement of Thoroughbred breeding and racing. Incorporated Feb.
10, 1894 in New York City, The Jockey Club serves as North America's
Thoroughbred registry, responsible for the maintenance of 'The
American Stud Book', a register of all Thoroughbreds foaled in the
United States, Puerto Rico and Canada; and of all Thoroughbreds
imported into those countries from jurisdictions that have a registry
recognized by The Jockey Club and the International Stud Book
Committee.
- Thick'un - A big bet.
- Thoroughbred - A Thoroughbred is a horse whose
parentage traces back to any of the three 'Founding Sires' the Darley
Arabian, Byerly Turk and Godolphin Barb, and who has satisfied the
rules and requirements of The Jockey Club and is registered in 'The
American Stud Book' or in a foreign stud book recognized by The Jockey
Club and the International Stud Book Committee. Any other horse, no
matter what its parentage, is not considered a Thoroughbred for racing
and/or breeding purposes.
- Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) - An
industry group comprised of many of the racetracks in North America.
- Ticket - The betting slip or ticket which is
received by the bettor from the bookmaker or totalisator, as proof of
his or her wager. The ticket is necessary to collect the dividends.
- Ticketer (US) - A forger of bookmakers' tickets.
- Tic-Tac - The secret and complex sign language
used by bookmakers at racecourses to indicate movements in the price
of a horse. See BBC's Tic-Tac guide.
- Tierce - A French combination bet in which the
bettor predicts the horses that will finish 1st, 2nd and 3rd.
- Tips - The selections chosen by an expert to bet
on (also known as Picks). See 'Selections'.
- Tipster - A person who makes selections for a
race, providing tips on which horses they believe will win the first
three places.
- Top Weight - See 'High Weight'.
- Totalizator (Totalisator) - The system of betting
on races (an automated system that dispenses and records betting
tickets, calculates and displays odds and payoffs and provides the
mechanism for cashing winning tickets) in which the winning bettors
share the total amount bet, minus a percentage for the operators of
the system, taxes etc. Synonyms: Tote, Parimutuel.
- Tote - Totalizator. The organisation appointed to
receive bets and supply dividends in proportion to the amount of the
investment. A body in the UK set up to operate pool-betting on all
racecourses.
- Tote Board - The (usually) electronic totalizator
display in the infield which reflects up-to-the-minute odds. It may
also show the amounts wagered in each mutuel pool as well as
information such as jockey and equipment changes, etc. Also known as
the 'Board'.
- Tote Returns - Returns from a tote pool (also
known as a Dividend), calculated by taking the total stake in each
pool (after the take out) and dividing it by the number of winning
tickets. A dividend is declared to a fixed stake, for various win,
place and forecast pools.
- Tout - Person who professes to have, and sells,
advance information on a race. Also used as a verb meaning to sell or
advertise.
- Track Condition - Condition of the racetrack
surface. Slow; Fast; good; muddy; sloppy; frozen; hard; firm; soft;
yielding; heavy.
- Track Record - Fastest time for a distance at a
particular track.
- Trail - Racing immediately behind another horse.
A trail is also known as a sit.
- Trainer - The person responsible for looking
after a horse and preparing it to race. A trainer must hold a license
or permit to be entitled to train.
- Treble - A bet consisting of 3 selections, all of
which must win for the wager to be successful.
- Tricast (UK) - See 'Trifecta' below.
- Trifecta - A wager picking the first three
finishers in exact order. Called a 'Triactor' in Canada and a 'Triple'
in some parts of the U.S. ('Tricast' in the UK.)
- Trifecta Box - A trifecta wager in which all possible combinations
using a given number of horses are bet upon. The total number of
combinations can be calculated according to the formula
(x3)-(3x2)+(2x), where x equals the amount of horses in the box. The
sum of the formula is then multiplied by the amount wagered on each
combination.
- Triple - (Also 'Treble') See 'Trifecta' above.
- Triple Crown - Used generically to denote a
series of three important races, but is always capitalized when
referring to historical races for three-year-olds. In the United
States, the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes. In
England the 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St. Leger Stakes. In
Canada, the Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes and Breeders'
Stakes.
- Trixie - A Trixie consists of 4 bets involving 3
selections in different events, i.e. 3 doubles plus 1 treble.
- Trotting - A term for harness racing in general.
It also describes the specific gait of a trotter.
- Turf Accountant - The UK euphemism for a
bookmaker.
- Turf Course - Grass course.
- Unbackable - A horse which is quoted at short
odds that punters decide is too short to return any reasonable amount
for the money they outlay.
- Underlay - A horse racing at shorter odds than
seems warranted by its past performances.
- Under Starters Orders (or Under Orders) - The
starting of a race.
- Under Wraps - Horse under stout restraint in a
race or workout.
- Union Jack - A bet consisting of 8 trebles on 9
selections A to I: ABC, DEF, GHI, ADG, BEH, CFI, AEI, and CEG.
- Value - Getting the best odds on a wager.
- Wager - Another term for bet.
- Walkover - A race in which only one horse
competes.
- Warming Up - Galloping horse on way to post.
- Weigh In (Out) - The certification, by the clerk
of scales, of a rider's weight before (after) a race. A jockey weighs
in fully dressed with all equipment except for his/her helmet, whip
and (in many jurisdictions) flak jacket.
- Welsh/Welch - To fail to pay a gambling bet.
- Wheel - Betting all possible combinations in an
exotic wager using at least one horse as the key. See 'Part Wheel'.
- Wheeling - A racing system devised for the daily
double bet in which the bettor backs one horse in the first race and
every horse in the second (also known as Baseball or Locking).
- Weight-For-Age - The purpose of weight-for-age is
to allow horses of different age and sex to compete on equal terms.
The weight a horse carried is allocated on a set scale according to
its sex and age.
- Whip - Instrument or a stick, usually of leather,
with which rider strikes horse to increase his speed.
- Win - The term used to describe a 1st place
finish.
- Win Bet - Wager on a horse to finish first.
- Winning Post - The finishing line of a race.
(Also, The Post.)
- Wire - The finish line of a race.
- Wise Guy - A knowledgeable handicapper or bettor.
- With the Field - Having one horse linked with all
the other horses in an event. It can apply to forecasts or in doubles.
- Yankee - A multiple bet consisting of 11 bets (6
doubles, 4 trebles and 1 4-fold) on 4 selections in different events.
- Yap - Yankee Patent. The same 11 bets as a
Yankee, but with singles on each of the 4 selections as well, making
15 bets in all (also known as a 'Lucky 15').
- Yearling - A horse in its second calendar year of
life, beginning January 1 of the year following its birth.
- Yielding - Condition of a turf course with a great deal of moisture. Horses sink into it noticeably.