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I occasionally place a swinger/omni/QP bet at Hong Kong, when I think the favorite will run out, and can't make up my mind over a couple of other contenders. It's a bet that provides some value at Sha Tin where the larger fields and lots of bets spread out by the fans makes the payoffs okay. It's also a good bet for players like me that find a long shot ambling up for a well beaten third in many races.
Sha Tin doesn't offer exactas, but their quinellas usually pay pretty good - they are difficult to hit, even with a couple of stronger favorites. For almost all of NA racing, it's not as good a fit, as the connections usually crush the more favorable combos. Keeneland offered the OMNI back about 15-20 years ago, and I thought it might catch on a bit, as that's a tough track - but, it didn't. I think Saratoga would work too with the bet with the larger fields and contentious races, though an awful lot of chalk underlays seem to make it on the board.
That's an odd deal with the omni still paying out on a late scratch, though we are talking about the French here. Maybe they have a rule about late scratches to avoid the mob rushing the windows. At Sha Tin they payoff on the 2nd place finisher for the second half of a double - which is kind of interesting, though I'm sure the purists would poo poo it for its "consolation" flavor. Doesn't matter though, we can't get the multi-race bets here in NA for HK anyway.
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