Betting Glossary - Essential Betting Terms beginning with C
- Canadian or Canadian Line
- A combination bet consisting 26 different bets of the same stake based around five selections in different permutations. The bet splits up into a five-fold, five four-folds, 10 trebles and 10 doubles. As in all Canadian-type bets, at least two of the selections must come in for the bet to return anything. A £1 Canadian would cost £26. Sometimes called a Super Yankee. Other Canadian-type bets include Trixie (3 selections), Yankee (4 selections), Heinz (6 selections), Super Heinz (7 selections), Goliath (8 selections).
- Card
- A list of the days races and runners
- Carpet
- The 'tic-tac' / Slang term for 3-1. Double carpet is 33/1.
- Cast (in box)
- term describing horse lying down in a horsebox
- CFC
- Short for Combination Forecast.
- Chalk
- The favorite.
- Chalk Jockey
- Jockey not yet successful enough to have name painted on riders board (out of date)
- Chalk Player
- someone who usually only plays the favored teams, rarely betting on the underdogs.
- Chase
- Steeplechase
- Cheating Boots
- Jockeys racing boots made of extremely light material to save weight
- Chestnut
- Brown or tan horse with brown tail and mane
- Circled game
- a game in which the betting action is reduced; usually occurs in added games, games with injuries, bad weather, propositions, or halves of games. These games cannot be included in parlays or teasers.
- Claiming Race
- race where the winner can be "claimed" from the yard for a set fee.
- Clerk of the Scales
- Racecourse official responsible for checking weight of jockey + tack in weighing room
- Close coupled
- Short backed (horse)
- Club
- Premium racecourse enclosure reserved for racecourse annual and day members
- Co-favourite
- A horse that shares its position at the head of the market with at least two other horses.
- Cockle
- The 'tic-tac' / Slang term for 10/1.
- Coincidence Bet
- Where the bet is based on a coincidence; e.g. the horse Airborne winning the Derby just after the Second World War.
- Colours
- Silks (shirt) worn by a jockey during a race to identify owner
- Combination Betting
- Selecting any number of runners in one race to finish first and second in either order. To calculate how many bets there are, simply multiply the number of selections by one number less; i.e. 3 selections is 3 x 2 = 6 bets 4 selections is 4 x 3 = 12 bets 5 selections is 5 x 4 = 20 bets
- Come again
- regain ground after dropping back in a race
- Come back to the field
- when a front runner is caught, or slows to join other horses in a race
- Computer straight forecast (CSF)
- The odds for a forecast bet. The product of each selection's win odds multiplied together, presumably by a computer....
- Conditional Jockey
- A young jockey (under 26) who receives a weight allowance for inexperience
- Conditions
- The going or weather
- Conditions Race
- A race in which horses carry the same weight according to sex. They may be penalised by the adding of weight for races previously won or given allowances for age (called 'weight for age').
- Connections
- People that are related with a horse. E.g. the owner and trainer.
- Controlled risk
- Spread betting with limited losses.
- Course
- Racecourse or that that part of a it for which visitors do not pay a premium to enter on raceday
- Cover
- When a favorite wins by more than the required number of points.
- Crash helmet
- Jockey's headgear made compulsory in 1924 after the death of leading amateur Captain "Tuppy" Bennett having been kicked by a horse at Wolverhampton.
- Credit bet
- A bet taken by a bookmaker without a cash deposit.