How To Bet The Pick 6 At Your Favorite Horse Track Articles | Horse Betting

By: Richard Bleuze

How to bet the Pick 6 at your favorite horse track

A pick 6 is a type of wager offered by many horse racing tracks. It requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races.  Thus, it is very hard to win a pick 6.  Because of the great difficulty in picking six straight winners, plus the number of betting interests involved, payoffs for successful wagers are often very high.  In fact, some horse tracks have offered winners of a pick 6 as much as a million dollars.

A pick 6 wager is an exotic type of bet on horse racing.  If you are going to play the pick 6, you must place the bet before the start of the first of the six races.  Many tracks in the United States offer nine or ten races per day, usually in the afternoon.  Thus, some horse tracks put the pick 6 as the first six races, the middle six races, or the last six races.  It is up to you to find out how your favorite horse track plays the pick 6.

The most common form of playing a pick 6 is what is known as "wheeling".  In "wheeling", the horse bettor selects more than one horse in each of the six races.  "Wheeling" generally increases your chance of winning, but it does increase the amount of your wager.

The more horses you pick in each horse race, the better chance you have of winning.  However, as stated, your pick 6 wager does increase.  The cost of your wager is determined by multiplying the number of horses in each race together then by the amount wagered. For example: 1 x 2 x 2 x 1 x 2 x 1 x $1 = $8.  The minimum wager on a pick 6 is usually $1 or $2.

In conclusion, select the horse you think will win each race.  Just remember,
you can select more than one horse in each race but this will increase the amount of your pick 6 wager.

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