{"id":6512,"date":"2013-11-12T22:25:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/11\/12\/ca-horse-racing-board-looking-into-possible-odds-manipulatio\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T22:25:57","slug":"ca-horse-racing-board-looking-into-possible-odds-manipulatio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/11\/12\/ca-horse-racing-board-looking-into-possible-odds-manipulatio\/","title":{"rendered":"CA Horse Racing Board looking into possible odds manipulatio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nINGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 The California Horse Racing Board is looking into several large win bets made at Southern California Thoroughbred tracks that were withdrawn in the minutes before post time.<\/p>\n<p>\tRacing board spokesman Mike Marten said officials had been in contact with Xpressbet about a win bet of approximately $30,000 made through the account-wagering service and removed from the pool in the minutes before Saturday\u2019s seventh race at Betfair Hollywood Park.<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cWe\u2019ve been in contact with Xpressbet and we don\u2019t expect a recurrence,\u201d Marten said.<\/p>\n<p>\tAn Xpressbet spokesperson said his organization was working with the racing board \u201cto limit this type of behavior from occurring going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\u201cWe\u2019re taking measures to prevent this,\u201d said the spokesperson, who did not wish to be named.<\/p>\n<p>\tSaturday, the $30,000 win bet was made on Ekahi in a $16,000 claimer over seven furlongs. The bet made Ekahi the 3-5 favorite with 13 minutes to post. With six minutes to post, Ekahi was the even-money favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe bet was withdrawn from the pool with approximately three minutes to post, causing Ekahi to drift to 27-1 by post time. Ekahi, listed at 30-1 on the morning-line, was last of nine throughout the race. The race was won by Cast a Doubt, the 5-2 favorite.<\/p>\n<p>\tA similar situation occurred twice in the same race at the Santa Anita autumn meeting on Oct. 20. The bets were withdrawn before the race was run.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> TommyC on November 14, 2013, 2:45 pm<\/p>\n<div>Odds manipulation, In Lous it was so bad,they will not let you change your ticket unless a scratch has occurred.  On line where I played you can cancel 2 tickets per day.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2013 The California Horse Racing Board is looking into several large win bets made at Southern California Thoroughbred tracks that were withdrawn in the minutes before post time. Racing board spokesman Mike Marten said officials had been in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}