To place a Trifecta bet you must choose three horses that you believe will finish first, second and third. To win the bet, those three horses must finish in that order.
Trifecta Box Bet
Boxed Trifecta Cost
Boxed Trifecta: The easiest and most popular way to take a Trifecta. Add three or more selections and by boxing them you buy all the possible combinations of any three of them coming 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The more runners you pick the greater the cost e.g. 3 runners Boxed = $6, 4 runners = $24, 5 runners= $60 at $1 per combination. If your roving banker dead heats for third, you will be entitled to only one trifecta because your roving banker will appear in one box. A double floating banker 3 and 5 with 2, 4, 6 & 7 = R24.00 (being 24 combinations taken one time) and horses 3 and 5 must be placed in the first three positions along with one of the other selections.
A common way to play a Trifecta is to box three horses. A $1 box using #1,#2, and #3 would cost $6. The three horses you selected must finish in the top three spots for you to win. A four-horse $1 box would cost $24.
Often a better way to play is called a Trifecta key. In this wager, you use one or more “key” horses. For instance if you liked the #1 to win, you could play a $1 Trifecta key of #1 over #2,#3,#4,#5 over #2,#3,#4,#5. This would be a $12 ticket. You need the #1 to win the race and any of your other four contenders to finish second and third.
A Trifecta can be tough to hit because often it seems just about any runner in a race can plod home and land third. It is usually best if you can find one or two “key” horses and use those on top, then spreading your ticket out for the second and third spot.
What Is A Trifecta Tune
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Trifecta Box Cost
Finding a longshot to land in your Trifecta could be the difference from making a small profit and making a big score.
Just boxing contenders can get pricey:
$1 box using 3 horses = $6
$1 box using 4 horses = $24
$1 box using 5 horses = $60
$1 box using 6 horses = $120
Using a boxing method also means you are weighing all of the contenders with an equal chance of winning. It’s better to try to find one or two key horses to use on top that you think have a great chance of winning the race.
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The Best Trifecta Strategy
Here are a few ways to get good coverage with modest invests:
#1,#2 with #1,#2,#3 with #1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6 = $16
#1,#2 with #1,#2,#3,#4 with #1,#2,#3,#4,$5,#6 = $24
#1,#2,#3 with #1,#2,#3,#4 with #1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6 = $36
Many tracks now have .50 cent trifectas!
Since it’s generally easier to pick a winner than pick a horse that is going to finish third, it’s a good idea to spread out the options for the third spot. Ideally, when playing Trifecta keys you have a solid opinion on one or two runners in the race and spread enough in the third position in hopes of landing a horse that could be a generous price and increase the payoff.
In general, Trifectas don’t offer much value in fields with less than seven runners. Horse races with large fields usually generate the largest payoffs.
Horse Racing Betting Explained
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The professional approach to trifecta betting is to bet each combination individually with varying amounts. But rather than base trifecta predictions on win chances one must use place chances because the order of favouritism for second and particularly third can be different from that for the win. Put another way, the trifecta chances of three runners depending on the win chances of every other runner in the race! As a result, we can show that a trifecta of three runners at say $3, $4 and $5 will actually have different chances of occurring and pay different amounts depending on the chances of the other runners in the race.
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Trifecta Bet Types
Boxed Trifecta Definition
To maximise your chances of picking the trifecta you need to bet more than just a single combination
When betting a Trifecta you get paid a dividend by picking the first three place getters in order. To maximise your chances of wining you need to bet a number of combinations. Following are ways to do this from simple (and inefficient) to more complicated (and more profitable):
- Standard Trifectas are the simplest form of trifecta betting because you just select first, second and third in order (ie one selection to come first, one to come second and one to come third). The cost is inexpensive at just one unit but the chances of you picking the three place getters correctly and in order are rather low.
- Boxed Trifectas are a popular trifecta betting method where you bet a number of selections to come first, second and third in any order. With boxed trifectas you get every possible combination of your selections for first, second and third.
- Multiple Trifectas are similar to boxed trifectas but you can specify a different number of selections for first, second and third.
- Banker Trifectas are where you stand out one selection to win with other selections to fill the second and third places. Roving Bankers are similar but your banker is a runner you are sure will fill a place so you 'rove' it across the three place positions. The use of bankers reduces your outlay but naturally you only collect if your banker fills the required position and your other selections fill the other positions.
- Flexi Betting allows you to reduce the overall amount bet in return for a proportionally reduced collect. Also known as Fractional Betting on Tattsbet and Percentage Betting in NZ, this is a great way to make trifecta betting more affordable. Let's look at an example with 10 horses where boxing gives 720 combinations costing $720 (using $1 units). With Flexi Betting you could reduce your outlay to say $72 (10%) or even $7.50 (1%). If the trifecta paid $10,000 then you would have to outlay $720 to get the full $10,000 but a $72 Flexi Bet would return you $1,000 (10%) while a $7.50 Flexi Bet would return $100 (1%).
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