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Essential Betting Terms
- Gaff tracks
- small, locally supported racetracks
- Galloping Track
- A racecourse which suits horses with a long stride, emphasis on speed
- GamCare
- The national centre for information, advice and practical help with regard to the social impact of gambling
- Garden (gate)
- Bookmaking slang for odds of 8/1
- Gelding
- Castrated Horse
- Gentleman Jockey
- Amateur Rider
- Get up
- Catch up
- Getting Down
- Making a bet.
- Girth
- Middle of a horse
- Going
- Ground condition of the race surface. (hard, firm, good to firm, good, good to soft, soft/yielding, heavy)
- Going Down
- Horses are on their way to the start.
- Goliath
- Eight selections in eight different races comprising 28 doubles, 56 trebles, 70 fourfolds, 56 fivefolds, 28 sixfolds, 8 sevenfolds and one eightfold. It is 247 bets win and 494 bets each way.
- Graded Race
- A race for top/better quality horses
- Grand Salami
- A sports betting term meaning the grand total of goals scored in all the hockey games of the day. It can be wagered to go Over/Under.
- Green
- Used to refer to an inexperienced horse.
- Grey
- Colour
- Group Races and Pattern Races
- These are the best quality races established to test the thoroughbred for breeding purposes.
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