Glossary of Australian and New Zealand Punting - R

R

• Racing plates: Aluminium horseshoes.
• Rails: The fence on the inside of a race track. Also, the prime position in a bookmakers' ring. Hence "rails bookmaker."
• Red-hots: The trots, or harness racing.
• Relegated: Horse is demoted in finish order due to an inquiry into the race.
• Result: In bookmaking a "result" is a financial outcome of any race. It may be a "good result" or a "bad result."
• Ridden upside down: Not ridden in the usual manner. An example would be a normal front runner which is ridden back in the field.
• Rig: A male horse which is a cryptorchid or not properly castrated.
• Ring: An area on a racecourse where the bookmakers are positioned is always called a "ring", regardless of its shape.
• Ring-in: A horse in a race who has been substituted illegally for the correct entrant. The most infamous case in recent years was the Fine Cotton ring-in.
• Risky conveyance: A horse which has a record of not performing to expectations in previous races.
• Roughie: A horse at long odds which is considered to have only a remote chance of winning a race.
• Running double: Type of wager calling for the selection of winners of two consecutive races.