Greyhound Racing Tracks
The greyhounds chase a "hare", a mechanical lure usually made of artificial bone. The hare starts about half a circuit behind the start. When it passes a point near the starting traps, it automatically triggers the gate, releases the greyhounds and the race begins. Should the greyhounds catch or overtake the hare, the race is declared void.
In the US, there are about 40 greyhound racing tracks operating in 12 different states. Here sre some of the popular greyhound racing tracks:
- Birmingham Greyhound Racing Track
- Caliente Greyhound Racing Track
- Corpus Christi Greyhound Racing Track
- Dairyland Greyhound Racing Track
- Daytona Beach Greyhound Racing Track
- Derby Lane Greyhound Racing Track
- Dubuque Greyhound Racing Track
- Geneva Lakes Greyhound Racing Track
- Gulf Greyhound Racing Track
- Hindsdale Greyhound Racing Track
Greyhound racing wagers, like horse racing wagers, are referred to as Pari-Mutuel, meaning "to wager amongst ourselves" in French. American greyhound racing fans bet against and amongst one another, not against the greyhound racing track. Wagers, of a particular type, are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.
The challenge of betting on greyhound races is to collect and analyze information and then make a sound judgment on which greyhound to bet on, what type of bet to place and how much to bet.
There is obviously no guaranteed way of finding winners, but for a newcomer to greyhound racing, the task must seem quite intimidating. Six greyhounds may all seem the same to the novice but there are many factors to take into consideration before risking any hard earned money.
Over the years, there have been all sorts of so called fail-proof winning statistical systems but the only way one can realistically hope to show a profit in greyhound racing is to study each and every greyhound's race card in any given race.