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Below is a list of common terms used to describe betting odds in racing:

Glossary of betting terms

  • Bottle - 2-1
  • Burlington Bertie - 100-30
  • Carpet - 3-1
  • Century - 100-1
  • Ching - 5-1Cockle - 10-1
  • Double carpet - 33-1
  • Double net - 20-1
  • Double tops - 15-8
  • Ear'ole - 6-4
  • Elef - 11-1
  • Elef a vier - 11-4
  • Enin - 9-1
  • Exes - 6-1
  • Face - 5-2
  • Handful or hand - 5-1
  • Levels (you devils) - evens
  • Macaroni - 25-1
  • Major Stevens - evens
  • Net - 10-1
  • Net and bice - 12/1
  • Net and ex - 16/1
  • Net and rouf -14/1
  • Neves or nevis - 7-1
  • Pony - 25-1
  • Roof or rouf - 4-1
  • Sais a wang - 6-5
  • Scruffy and dirty - 100-30
  • Shoulder - 7-4
  • Neves to rouf - 7/4
  • Shoulders or On the shoulders - 9-2
  • Straight up - evens
  • TH - 8-1
  • Tips - 11-10
  • Top of the head - 9-4
  • Up the arm - 11-8
  • Wrist - 5-4
  • Xis - 6-1