Terminology glossary

Ante-post – a bet placed on the outcome of a future event.

BAGS – Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service.

BEGS – Bookmakers Evening Greyhound Services.

Book – the odds of each selection combine to create a “book” created by the bookmaker.

Box – an alternative term for “trap”.

Forecast – a bet in which the punter attempts to identify the first two dogs home.

Going – the speed of the track, as judged by the official track handicapper.

Grade – the level of race, determined by the ability of the dogs running.

Jolly – another term for the favourite

Lay – to bet against something.

Odds – the prices of the selections.

Open race – the highest level of greyhound racing, often denoted by an OR abbreviation.

Place – the first two dogs home in a traditional six dog race have run into a place.

Puppy – a greyhound under the age of two.

Rag – the outsider of the field.

Tricast - a bet in which the punter attempts to identify the first three dogs home.

Trap – the boxes that the dogs start the race from.

Trial – a non-betting race intended to endow experience upon greyhounds, help the grader assess new intake or help with fitness of those returning from a spell away from the track.

Tote – a type of pool betting system operated by the tracks to give punters an alternative to betting with bookmakers.

 

Abbreviations:

A – Always

Aw – Away

Awk – Awkward

B – Badly

b – bitch

bd – brindle (colour)

be – blue (colour)

bk – black (colour)

Blk – Baulked (denied a clear run)

Bmp – Bumped

Bnd – Bend

Br – British Bred

Brk – Break

C – Co-Favourite

Calc – Calculated

Chl – Challenged

Clr – Clear

CmAg – Came Again

Crd – Crowded (given inadequate room to stretch, manoeuvre or take the desired course)

d – dog

DH – Dead Heat

Dis – Distance

Disq – Disqualified

dk – dark (colour)

DNF – Did Not Finish

Drpd – Dropped

E – Early

EvCh – Every Chance

Ext – Extra

F – Favourite

f – fawn (colour)

Fd – Faded

Fight – Fought

Fin – Finished

FsHt – False Heat

Fr – From

Gr – Graded Race

H – Hurdles

Hcp – Handicap

Hd – Head

HndTm – Hand Timed

Imp – Impeded

Ir – Irish

J – Joint Favourite

Ja – January

Jn – June

Jy – July

Kil – Kilograms

Lck – Lacked

Lm – Lame

lt – light

Mid – Middle

N – Normal

Nk - neck

O/C – Off Colour

Outp – Outpaced

P – Pace

Q – Quick (Away, etc)

R – red (colour)

Rec – Record

ReRn – Re-Yun

Rls – Railed

RnIn – Run-In

RnUp – Run-Up

Rst – Rest

S – Stayers (Class)

Schl – Schooling

Scr – Scratch

SH – Short Head

SP – Starting Price

SP1 – Sectional Placings

Ssn – Season

SsnSup – Season Suppressed

S – Slow (Away, etc)

Styd – Stayed

STm – Split Time

Stb – Stumbled

T – Trial

Th’out – Throughout

TiT- Turned-In-Traps

Tk – Track

Tm – Time

Tp – Trap

Unatt – Unattached

Wtg – Waiting

w – white (colour)

(w) – Wide Runner