What is the difference between an exacta and a forecast

It costs twice more than a straight forecast. A Combination Forecast consists of 4 bets that requires you to predict which selections will finish 1st and 2nd in any order. It costs 4 times more than a straight forecast. To place a Forecast or Tricast bet with Paddy Power simply follow these five simple steps:. Simply multiply the number of pairs doubles in your selections by 2.

Straight forecast: A straight forecast or SF is composed of two selections and is a single bet prediction of 1st and 2nd in the correct order. Combination tricast: A combination tricast or CT is composed of a number of selections and is a prediction for your selections to finish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in any order.

A combination bet consists of multiple bets on a series of selections. Typically the same stake is placed for each of the bets. Lucky 15 bets are great because your interest will be piqued throughout your betting period.

Plus with the four single bets, an advantage is that it is a higher stake, higher reward bet. The Quinella is one bet, while the Exacta Box is two. The prize pools of these two bets are different, so one will typically pay out higher than the other. Quinella betting for horse racing gives you a good chance at solid payback for a relatively simple wager.

It comes into play whenever you can correctly predict the first two horses in the official order of finish of a horse race. Superfecta — Pick four horses. If they finish 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, in exact order, you win. Well, you'll have heard of the football pools no doubt. A pool system works by all the stakes going into one large pool of money. When the race, or whatever event is being bet on, starts the market is closed.

The best known pool bet in this country is the National Lottery which is replacing the football pools as the normal weekly pool bet. As a matter of interest, and as an aside, most of the betting on courses in every country but here in the British Isles is done by pool betting.

The poor souls in America, Europe and Asia don't have bookmakers; they have just one massive totaliser board. Back to the Exactas. So, if one picks the favourite to beat the second favourite in a three horse race then the return won't be massive. However, if one successfully selects two outsiders then the return can be very large. At the November Open meeting at Cheltenham in I had an two-way Exacta on the last race as well as two each-way bets on each of these horses.

A record Exacta payout. Bookmakers also offer a CSF or SF which stands for Computer Straight Forecast or Straight Forecast and works in exactly the same way as an Exacta but the return is not dependent on the size of the pool but an horrendously large and complex formula which is reputed to go on for at least nine pages of A4.

As a rule the CSF doesn't pay out as much as the Exacta and is much maligned by racegoers. However, we feel that they have the wrong idea about the CSF and the very important role in which is can play if one has a forecast bet which one wishes to place.