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Horse Racing and Race Fixing

If you are a serious student of the game and following horse racing, you may have witnessed Dud horses often sprout wings and dash the hopes of majority of punters. You may have also seen owners and trainers enter multiple horses in a race and their long shots are favoured to win by sacrificing their hot favourites. If you analyze the past results of any center in India, you may find over 60% of horses were won at nourishing odds above 6/1. Betting exchanges in most part of the world are accepting bets on all sports and offering odds on winning and losing, hence match fixing is thriving. Fixing in horse racing is going on unabated for several decades, the situation has now worsened and the punters have lost complete faith in horse racing. Race goers lost hope because no one at the hot seats is bothered to call and question the erring professionals or punish them for in and out racing of their wards. In all gambling business, the huge money involved in betting is the main bone