The odds of the next race are automatically calculated by the tracks computers and displayed to the betters on screens during the betting period. The odds are updated automatically every minute. If the odds of a certain horse winning are 2:1, you"ll get 2 dollars for every one that you wager. ... When the authorities confronted Sklar he immediately admitted to fixing the scores of races in California from 1983 up to 1995. ... Scores of trainers have been suspended in the past year after post-race tests detected that their horses had been loaded up with banned substances. ...

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Some of these bets include civilization destroyed by mass suicide at 100 million to one odds, destruction by aliens at 500,000 to one odds, and worldwide floods at 100,000 to one odds. One man put a pound on 6,666,666 to one odds that the world would end at six p.m. on the sixth day of the sixth month of 1999. Another man bet at one million to one odds that the world would end on August 11, 1999 at 12:50 p.m. ... People bet on things like a completed first pass-attempt by John Elway, the jersey number of the first person to score, the team to score the longest touchdown, and the total number o...

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