Betting Glossary - Essential Betting Terms beginning with H
- Hacked up
- won easily
- Half time bet
- a bet placed only on the second half of the game.
- Hand
- Unit of four inches with which a horses height is measured at the shoulder
- Handful
- Experienced by a jockey when a horse is being restrained prior to release for a run
- Handful
- The 'tic-tac' / Slang term for 5/1.
- Handicap
- a race in which the weights to be carried by the horses are adjusted for the purpose of equalising their chance of winning.
- Handicapper
- Professional responsible for alloting the the weights to be carried by each horse in a handicap
- Handle
- The total amount of bets taken.
- Hands & heels
- Vigorous riding
- Handy
- In a good position, also nimble
- Headed
- Passed by another horse
- Hedge
- Bet the opposite of your original wager in order to reduce the amount of exposure you have on a game
- Hedging
- Offsetting a risk by using an investment which exposes you to an equal an opposite risk, or by making a gamble which exposes you to an equal and opposite risk. A bookmaker also hedges part or all of a bet (or an accumulation of wagers) in order to adjust the level of potential loss he is carrying on his book - this is called 'laying off'.
- Heinz
- Six selections in six different races comprising 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 fourfolds, 6 fivefolds and one sixfold. It is 57 bets win and 114 bets each way.
- HeinzA
- Canadian-type bet consisting of 57 bets on all the permutations of six selections. The bet splits into 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, six five-folds and a six-fold. See Trixie, Yankee, Canadian.
- Hobday
- Operate on a horse to improve its breathing (F.T. Hobday, vetinary surgeon, 1939)
- Holding Your Own
- Neither winning or losing, just breaking even.
- Home Straight
- Distance of straight track before winning line
- Home Stretch
- The length of main straight track before the finish line.
- Hood
- Head covering containing blinkers
- Hot game
- a game which is drawing a lot of action on one side by knowledgeable handicappers.
- Hunter Chase
- Weight for age steeplechase confined to horses certified by a master of hounds to have been hunted during the current year, and ridden by amateur riders.Â
- Hurdle
- Small upright obstacle
- Hyped Horse
- A horse given credence in the press or on TV for form that has not in fact been achieved.