How to Wager on the Greyhound Night of Stars Program

The Greyhound Night of Stars is an annual event that the greyhound racing industry puts on each year to raise money for greyhound adoption. The Night of Stars features standout racers from around the country, one from each participating dog track, spotlighting the best dogs in the nation. The Greyhound Night of Stars is looked forward to by greyhound racing enthusiasts each year, since they are able to focus their attention on the elite dogs from the best venues in the business.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Find out if the dog track or simulcasting parlor that you frequent is telecasting the Night of Stars (NOS) event and allowing wagering on it. Not all venues have the ability to bring the Greyhound Night of Stars to its customers. The NOS website will have this information for you.

2. Download the program from the Night of Stars website. The program will be available a few days before the event, which usually is held in the very beginning of November. Print the program.

3. Study the Night of Stars program before you go to the track or simulcast outlet. These races contain the fastest dogs at the various tracks and will not be a breeze to handicap on the fly at the last minute. Give yourself a better chance by doing your homework. The NOS card usually has at least one stakes race final in it and often more than one.

4. Familiarize yourself with the distances that will be run. The Greyhound Night of Stars is mostly 550-yard sprints, but there are normally a few longer-route events on the card as well. Tracks like Palm Beach Kennel Club always participate, and they run a 545-yard course. Don’t be confused by the yardage as you handicap.

5. Plan your wagering strategy. The Night of Stars has an early and late daily double, a number of pick-threes, trifectas and superfectas in every race and one added bonus that is not present during other greyhound performances. The Night of Stars program has a guaranteed $75,000 pick-six wager, which must be paid out. Even if you don’t select all six winners of the consecutive events in question, you have a chance to win if no one else does. It is definitely the wagering highlight of the entire evening.

Resources

• Night of Stars website

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[lacefullone]

on 3/17/2009 As a awareness of the *need* for homes for these beautiful, loving dogs after they are no longer wanted on the track...maybe suggest adopting one!?!That's what the event is all about isn't it? Raising money for adoption...that is lost in your article. I'm kinda curious what you do with your dogs after their racing days are done? If you are in fact a kennel operator,I pray you take advantage of the rescue groups that work very hard to place the dogs that are no longer profitable for you.