Last races
The races whose bets are settled: the dividends are known, and the winnings paid.
The list therefore does not show every past race, but those whose betting has been worked out — which happens shortly after the finish.
Reading a line
The same columns as on Upcoming races, except that the Bet button no longer has any reason to exist: in its place are your winnings.
- The race, its date, its speciality and its distance.
- Its class, its racetrack, its manager.
- Its criteria.
- Its jackpot and its entrants.
- The stakes: yours, then the total staked on the race.
- Your winnings, which open the race with a click.
The figure columns are about you
That is the point to read carefully, because it is easy to get wrong. The Stakes column displays two numbers: your stake, then, after the word of, the total staked by all the punters. “200 of 4,500” means that you put 200 sulkies into a race that received 4,500. And the Winnings column shows only your winnings, not what was paid out to everybody.
Hence two readings, which have nothing to do with each other.
Your winnings against your stake: that is the result of your bet on that race, quite simply. A zero means that nothing came in. It is in fact the only place in the game where your betting winnings are displayed — My last bets hides them deliberately so as not to spoil the race for you. Here the races are past and settled: there is no suspense left to preserve.
Your stake against the total: that is your share of the cake, and therefore the measure of your competition. A large total against a small stake means a heavily played race where the dividends will be tight; a small total, the opposite.
And the winnings figure is a button: click it, the race opens and you read there the dividends of each type of bet.
Where the money came from
To judge a race after the event, compare its jackpot with the total of the stakes. Punters only get back among themselves 90% of what they stake, and it is the jackpot — paid by the organiser, and by nobody else — that compensates for that levy, sometimes amply. A race with 3,000 in stakes and 2,000 of jackpot may have redistributed far more than the punters brought to it.
By going through this list regularly, you will learn one thing above all: which managers fund their races with a jackpot. Those are the ones whose races to follow in Upcoming races.
The dividends, race by race
The totals in this list do not say how much one bet brought in. For that, open the race: the dividends of each type of bet are there once the settlement is done.
That is where you learn the trade. Compare the dividend of a place bet with that of a trio on the same race, and you will see the price of difficulty. Spot the races where one type found nobody: the corresponding stakes came down to the easier types, and their dividends were swollen by it. See Being a punter for that mechanism.
The filters
The class, the speciality, the handicap, the length, the age and the name of the race, with the sorting.
Set the class if you want to understand one particular segment: cups gather many entrants and scatter the bets, competitions often carry a jackpot, regulated races are the run of the mill. Dividends do not look the same from one segment to another.
And your own bets?
They are not here. This page looks at the races, not at you: see My last bets.
It is in fact a good way of going about it: look at the race, then at the dividends, and only after that at what you played. You will know whether you had read it right before knowing whether you won.