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TAB-TABGOLD MEDIA RELE
TAB and TAB Gold have delayed the introduction of a commingled Trio on French races and commingled Trifecta pools on Australian, French and UK races until Wednesday 18 October.
Commingled Trifectas will provide tote customers with many more Trifecta betting opportunities on international races than is the case currently and simultaneously give them access to much bigger pools and payouts.
The commingled Trio on French race meetings is a new bet for TAB and TAB Gold customers. To win the Trio punters must select the first three horses to finish, regardless of order. Effectively, it’s a three-horse Trifecta Box in a single bet.
For example a three-horse Trifecta Box, in which numbers 1, 2 and 3 are selected, comprises six individual bets (1-2-3; 1-3-2; 2-1-3; 2-3-1; 3-1-2; 3-2-1), whereas with a Trio it is only one bet. In the case of four horses, a Trifecta Box comprises 24 combinations as opposed to only four combinations with a Trio (1-2-3; 1-2-4, 1-3-4, 2-3-4).
The unit cost of a TAB Trio on French races will be R2 with no fractional betting. So a four-horse Trio will cost R8 (four combinations @ R2 each) and a five-horse Trio R20 (10 combinations @ R2).
Three different Trio bets will be offered - single (three runners selected), box (four or more runners selected) and multiple (one or more horses selected for each of the first three places).
An example of a multiple Trio is numbers 1, 2 and 3 for first; number 4 for second and numbers 5 and 6 for third. That’s six combinations @ R2 each for R12 (1-4-5; 1-4-6; 2-4-5; 2-4-6; 3-4-5; 3-4-6).
The French PMU operates Trio pools on races with eight or more runners and Trifectas if there are seven or less runners.
As with the Trio, the unit cost of commingled Trifectas on Australian, French and UK racing will be R2 with no fractional betting. Thus a three-horse Trifecta Box will cost R12 (six combinations @ R2) and a five-horse box R120 (60 combinations @ R2). The standard R6 minimum bet will apply in all cases and all payouts displayed will be to a R1 unit, so winners will collect double the displayed TAB payout.
The benefits of commingling Trifecta pools with host totes (Tabcorp in Australia with the exception of thoroughbred venues in Victoria and South Australia; PMU in France and the UK Tote), as opposed to local pools, are many more Trifecta betting opportunities on races in those countries and bigger and more robust pools, which in turn will afford TAB customers the chance to win bigger payouts.
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