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Horse Racing Tips: The Ultimate Quartet Guide

Here you’ll learn everything you need to know about how to take a quartet, one of the most popular tote bet in South Africa. 

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First things first take a look at the video below before we get started

What is a quartet?

A quartet requires you to select four horses in a single race to finish in the first four placed in the exact order. 

Straight Line

The straight-line Quartet requires you to select one horse per finishing position – this remains true for all other straight-line bets as well. If you take a straight-line Quartet with the selections 1, 2, 3 and 4, these selections must finish the race in the first four places in this exact order for your bet to win as displayed below.

First

Second

Third

Fourth

1

2

3

4

In the event of a dead heat for first place, there will be two dividends paid out. Should the race finish 1/5 – 2 – 3 – 4, the winning combinations will be: 

First

Second

Third

Fourth

1

2

3

4

AND

First

Second

Third

Fourth

5

2

3

4

The same rule will apply if there is a dead heat for second, third or fourth place. 

Boxed Quartet –

A boxed quartet offers you more security than a straight line. Here, you will select four or more horses to run in the first four positions in ANY order. So if you want to take a boxed quartet with numbers 1, 2 3 and 4, these selections must finish the race in the first four places in any order.

First

Second

Third

Fourth

1

1

1

1

2

2

2

2

3

3

3

3

4

4

 4

4

Banker Quartet

When you banker a runner it usually means that you require the “banked” runner to finish first, second, third or fourth. 

If you take 1 as a banker for first by 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 for second and third, it would mean that you are relying on number 1 to finish first followed by any two of 2, 3, 4 or 5 to finish second, third and fourth.  See the table below.

You also have the option to banker a horse to finish second, third or fourth in your quartet.

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

1

2

2

2

 

3

3

3

 

4

4

4

 

5

5

5

Floating/Roving Banker Quartet

In a quartet, you have the option of one or two floating/roving bankers which must run in the top four positions in any order and the other selections must fill the positions that your banker does not.

For example, Roving/Floating number 1 by numbers 2, 3, 4, 5. This implies that horse number 1 must run in the first four with any of the selections finishing in the first three with it.

In addition to this, you can have more than one floating bankers. For example, you can “floating/roving bankers” numbers 1 and 10 with horses 2, 3, 4, and 5. This means that you’d need numbers 1 and 10 to run anywhere in the top four with 2, 3, 4, or 5 filling the other positions.

Floating/Roving banker 1/2 -3 – 4 – 5

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

1

2

2

2

 

3

3

3

 

4

4

4

 

5

5                   

5

Floating bankers 1/10/ – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

1

10

2

2

  

3

3

  

4

4

  

 5

5

Maximum Payout

Hollywoodbets Open Bet

An open bet is a bet offered by Hollywoodbets on one or more events in which no fixed odds are agreed at the time the bet is placed and the winnings and therefore the payout is determined after the outcome of the event on which such bet was struck becomes known, with reference to dividends generated by a totalisator.

Hollywoodbets Maximum Payout 

When taking a quartet the maximum winnings in respect thereof will be limited to the net pool of the tote.

To read the full list of terms and conditions click here

Tote Bet

When switching over to the tote with the button provided on the Hollywoodbets website and mobisite, you now can take a bet where the payout is limited to the rules stipulated by the TabGold website.

Difference between Open Bet and Tote Bet

An Open Bet is a tote/TAB type bet taken with a bookmaker. The bookmaker – in this case, Hollywoodbets – lays the bet, and pays the dividend as declared by the tote on the winning combinations.

No fixed odds are agreed at the time the bet is placed. The winnings and therefore the payout is determined after the outcome of the event on which the open bet was struck becomes known, with reference to the dividends generated by the totalizator.

Tote betting works by a player betting into a cumulative pool that also includes other punters. The payout is then shared among all of the winning players – this is referred to as a dividend. Remember that the total amount that gets paid out is determined by the number of people who won the pot.

Armed with all of this knowledge, you now know how to take a quartet with Hollywoodbets! 

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