Wagering Insecurity: Tote Systems Have Not Evolved To Address Fix Six Scandal Sponsored by:
Volponi (43-1) wins the 2002 Breeders Cup Classic under Jose Santos
This is Part 3 of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation s (TIF) series “Wagering Insecurity.”
Faced with remarkable competitive pressure from the rise of legal sports betting, horse racing is at a crossroads.
Confidence amongst horseplayers and horse owners is essential to the future sustainability of the sport. Efforts to improve the greater North American Thoroughbred industry will fall flat if its stakeholders fail to secure a foundation of integrity, along with increased transparency of the wagering business and its participants over time. Achieving this is growing increasingly difficult after the sport has neglected its core base – horseplayers – for decades.
Wagering Insecurity: When Doping And Gambling Are Intertwined Sponsored by:
This is Part 2 of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation s (TIF) series “Wagering Insecurity.”
Faced with remarkable competitive pressure from the rise of legal sports betting, horse racing is at a crossroads.
Confidence amongst horseplayers and horse owners is essential to the future sustainability of the sport. Efforts to improve the greater North American Thoroughbred industry will fall flat if its stakeholders fail to secure a foundation of integrity, along with increased transparency of the wagering business and its participants over time. Achieving this is growing increasingly difficult after the sport has neglected its core base – horseplayers – for decades.
Wagering Insecurity: Are We Meeting The Basic Expectation Of Integrity In Racing? Sponsored by:
This is Part 1 of the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation s (TIF) series “Wagering Insecurity.”
Faced with remarkable competitive pressure from the rise of legal sports betting, horse racing is at a crossroads.
Confidence amongst horseplayers and horse owners is essential to the future sustainability of the sport. Efforts to improve the greater North American Thoroughbred industry will fall flat if its stakeholders fail to secure a foundation of integrity. Achieving this is growing increasingly difficult after the sport has neglected its core base – horseplayers – for decades.
“Wagering Insecurity” details some of that neglect, and the need to embrace serious reform. Fortunately, there are examples across the racing world to follow.
Wagering Insecurity: Thoroughbred Idea Foundation To Examine Current State Of Oversight Sponsored by:
The Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF) will launch “Wagering Insecurity,” a multi-part series which will examine the current state of oversight of North American Thoroughbred racing and wagering, beginning Tuesday, April 13.
In the aftermath of the infamous “Fix Six” at the 2002 Breeders Cup, the American racing industry pledged millions of dollars to improve the monitoring of pari-mutuel betting and create a central office to oversee wagering security. While plenty was spent, the oversight never materialized. Vulnerabilities still exist, late odds changes impact many races and transparency is nowhere to be found.
Oklahoma Commission Accepts Jackpot Bet Rule Change Sponsored by:
The Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission (OHRC), in its January meeting, accepted an amendment to its rules of racing which will now increase protection of horseplayers placing jackpot-style bets. The action came following months of advocacy from the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation (TIF).
Arthur held the only ticket with the winning combination for a jackpot pick six wager on a sequence at Remington Park but was denied the payout as it was deemed a dead heat created two tickets and was not a unique wager, disqualifying him from the $35,145 jackpot.
Arthur s bet included both horses in the dead heat in a single wager entered via his ADW account, but in conversations with TIF and Arthur s attorney, Maggi Moss, Remington officials asserted the unusual outcome created two separate tickets and that they were justified in paying only two consolations totaling $8.920.80. That amount was the entirety of the net consolat