Over R500 million was wagered into the Hong Kong World Pools on last Saturday’s King George VI meeting at Ascot in the UK and TAB horseracing customers get another chance to bet huge amounts without significantly reducing payouts on the first three days of the Qatar Goodwood Festival, which begins this Tuesday.
Glorious Goodwood, the long-standing title of the five-day festival, is one of the top attractions of the British flat racing season. Major races during the festival include the Group 1 Qatar Sussex Stakes on Wednesday and the Group 1 Qatar Nassau Stakes on Thursday, and TAB will offer its normal range of international bets.
Hong Kong World Pools will be in operation on the first three days of the festival and all TAB Win, Place, Swinger and Quinella bets on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be commingled into the UK Tote, which in turn will commingle them into the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s massive World Pools.
The Al Shaqab Stakes, a Group 1 contest over 3200m, headlines the opening day and Irish raider Kyprios and Stradivarius are expected to dominate.
TAB betting details for Glorious Goodwood on Tuesday are below.
ALL RACES: Commingled Win, Place, Swinger, Quinella (FIRST, SECOND any order); SA POOLS: Exacta, Trifecta, Quartet AND Place Accumulator (Races 2-8), Jackpot (Races 5-8).
NOTE: All bets R1 unit; minimum bet R6 except SWINGER, QUINELLA minimum bet R2. EACHWAY bet of R3 Win and R3 Place, as well as 3-horse EXACTA or TRIFECTA Box or 4-horse SWINGER Box for R6 total cost can be taken. If more than 30 carded, TAB operates SA pools on race and SA rules apply. All runners numbered 30 and higher are bracketed as Number 30, which can only qualify once for dividend purposes.
PLEASE NOTE: Win, Place, Swinger, Quinella commingled by UK Tote into Hong Kong Jockey Club World Pools. HKJC rules will apply. HKJC PLACE Rules: Less than 4 runners no Place betting; 4-6 declared runners payouts FIRST, SECOND; 7 to 20 declared runners payouts FIRST, SECOND, THIRD; 21 or more declared runners payouts FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH.