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While luck plays a large part in any betting game, it should also be noted that doing one’s homework can pay dividends. Having the right information on everything regarding the game to be wagered on lessens the dependence on luck, and dedicating a bit of time to research greatly improves the chances of winning.
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Horse racing in the United States has its origins in English traditions. England’s involvement in the Crusades from 1096 to 1270 made them realize that smaller, faster Turkish cavalry horses could dominate their massive warhorses, so Crusaders bought, captured, and outright stole as many Turkish stallions as they could to bring back to England. The [...]
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Horse racing aficionados live for the sights, smells, and pure electricity of a track when a race is in full swing. The unique energy and vibrancy that a horse race brings have captivated its spectators from the very first time tribesmen raced wild horses on the steppes and plains of Central Asia some 6,000 years [...]
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In the US alone, roughly 40 states host horse racing events and allow people to bet on the races. Horse race wagering has actually been a legal form of gambling a lot longer than casinos games have. Back in the 1940s, horse racing was up there with baseball and football as the country’s top spectator [...]
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For horse racing aficionados, much of horse racing’s thrill is in the wagering. In their eyes, nothing beats the thrill of watching a race and cheering for the horses they’ve placed money on. Betting has been part and parcel of horse racing ever since Central Asian tribesmen first tamed and raced wild horses over 6,000 [...]
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Most would-be horse racing fanatics are put off by the oft-confusing plethora of ways one can place a horse racing bet. To the uninitiated, strips of paper filled with boxes and columns of strange abbreviations and numbers can be rather daunting. To make things worse, the exotic terms being bandied about sound more like medical [...]
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If the only bets that could be placed on horse races are double-or-nothings, the sport would have died out long ago. Aside from the fact that many factors can affect a race’s outcome and prevent a sure win, it can also become very monotonous for horseplayers to always bet the same way. This fueled the [...]
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Horse racing betting is one of the oldest forms of gambling, enjoyed even by ancient Greek citizens when it was first included in the Olympic Games in 638 BC. This highly attended spectator sport, often dubbed the Sport of Kings, draws roughly 50 million people and over $9 billion in wagers every year. Needless to [...]
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The almost perpetually sunny state of California has a lot to offer. Fair weather, a wide variety of terrain, Universal Studios, Hollywood – California has all this and more. Even in the world of horse racing, California is considered to be a special place, as evidenced by the fact that the state was chosen to [...]
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Though horse racing has been around since 4500 B.C., it hasn’t stopped attracting new fans. Thousands of horse racing devotees are added to the fold every year, with hundreds of thousands of casual players just waiting to be prodded as well. And while the terms and rules used in horse racing can be confusing, newcomers [...]
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