The daily double involves picking the winning horse
in two consecutive races. All tracks offer the early
daily double which involves races #1 and #2. Most tracks
also offer a late daily double which is the last two
races of the day. Some tracks also offer a rolling daily
double which is on any two consecutive races. To win
a daily double you must pick the winning horse in each
of the two races. Combination bets can also be made
on daily doubles.
Daily Double Wheel
When you are confident of a horse winning either of
these two races but are uncertain of the outcome of
the other race, especially if the horse in which you
are confident has good to excellent odds, you might
want to consider the daily double wheel. In this bet
you bet your key horse with all the horses in the other
race. Your key horse might be in either of the two races.
Tell the clerk EX. ($2 Daily Double wheel the 5 with
ALL) if you are confident in the #5 horse winning the
first of the two races. But if your key horse is the
#3 in the second of the two races tell the clerk i.e.
($2 Daily Double wheel ALL with 3). The formula for
calculating the cost of the daily double wheel is simply
the number of horses in the race other than the race
containing your key horse, times the dollar value of
your bet.
EXAMPLE: The race other than the race containing your
key horse has 10 horses and you wish to make a $2 bet.
(2 x 10 = $20)
Daily Double Part-Wheel
The daily double part-wheel bet is a further refinement
of the daily double wheel bet. This allows you to exercise
your handicapping skills to eliminate all horses that
you think will not win the race. This will reduce the
size of your investment.
EXAMPLE: As in the example in the daily double wheel
above you have a key horse in one race and 10 horses
in the other race. But you have decided that only five
of the 10 horses have a chance of winning their race.
So, by doing a daily double part wheel, you have one
horse in combination with five horses and if you wish
to bet a $2 bet your cost would be (2 x 5 = $10). You
just saved yourself $10 over the full wheel bet and
hopefully you did not throw out the winning horse. If
for example, you decided that the #5 horse will win
the first race of the double and that either horses
#2, #4, #5, #8 or #9 will win the second race of the
double you would tell the clerk i.e. ($2 Daily Double
Part Wheel 5 with 2, 4, 5, 8, 9). NOTE: A $10 daily
double part wheel (5 with 2,4,5,8,9) would cost (10
x 5 = $50).
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