Betting Glossary - Essential Betting Terms beginning with D
- D'Alembert System
- A stake management system used in many types of gambling. Under this system, for each stake you add one unit if you lose but deduct one unit if you win. This avoids the problem of impossibly large stakes inherent in certain other systems.
- Dam
- female parent of a horse
- Dead Heat
- A race where there is a tie for the winner or one of the placed horses.
- Debit bet
- A bet where a debit to the punter's bank account will be incurred if the bookie is owed money.
- Decimal odds
- See odds.
- Declarations Clerk
- Course official responsible for recording horses entered, or withdrawn from, a race
- Declare
- announce a horse intends to run in a race
- Deposit Betting
- Betting with money deposited in advance.
- Dog
- the team perceived to be most likely to lose.
- Doll
- hurdle used to mark our course, especially when an area is waterlogged
- Double
- A bet in which two horses must win or be placed (each way) on the same day. In sports betting, two events may be nominated on different days including major horse races advertised ante-post.
- Double action
- An "if bet" in sports betting that is processed if the precedent bet wins, ties or cancels.
- Double Bet
- a wager for twice the size of one's usual wager; also known as "double pop" or "doubling up."
- Double Carpet
- Slang for the price 33/1.
- Double Header
- Two separate games played by the same teams on the same day.
- Down bet
- See sell.
- Draw
- The starting positions of a horse race from numbered stalls are drawn the day before a race.
- Drift
- When the price of a selection moves out (gets bigger), often due to a lack of support. That selection is said to be "on the drift". A price drifts if the odds get longer, eg from 3-1 to 4-1. This will happen if bets are preferentially placed on other horses in the book.
- Drifter
- horse whose odds lengthen in the betting market
- Drop him in
- Instruction to jockey to settle horse in a racing position behind the frontrunner in a race
- Dual Forecast
- A tote bet where to win you must correctly forecast the first and second placed horses in a race in either order.