A Beginner's Guide to KEIRIN
To purchase a betting ticket, you need to fill in a mark sheet. Choose the type of wager you want to make, the numbers of the bicycles or brackets you want to bet on and the amount to wager. Bring your completed mark sheet to the window or automatic ticket machine to purchase your betting ticket. Use a pencil and make sure each of your marks fills the circle completely.
Standard Mark Sheet
The standard mark sheet can be used for all wager types. Use this type of mark sheet when you are certain of the bet you want to make and have decided on a particular outcome.
Race venue
Fill in the velodrome you are betting on. Fill in “前日” if you are betting on a race being held the next day.
Wager type
Fill in the type of wager you want to make.
Race No.
Fill in the number of the race you want to bet on. Make sure you enter the race No. correctly.
Your bet
Fill in the numbers of the bicycles (or brackets, depending on the wager type you selected) you want to bet on. Your selection here will depend on the type of wager you selected. Select the 1st and 2nd place finishers for a perfecta wager, or the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers for a trifecta.
Wager amount
Fill in the amount of money you want to bet. Use the box on the right to indicate whether the amount on the left is in hundreds of yen (
), thousands of yen (
) or tens of thousands of yen (
).
Cancel
Lets you cancel a bet on the mark sheet without having to erase all the marks or get a new sheet.
(The format of some mark sheets may vary somewhat from this example.)Formation/Box Mark Sheet
This type of mark sheet is handy when you've decided on the 1st place finisher but can't decide on the 2nd place finisher, or think any cyclist could finish 1st or 2nd. Note that all nagashi/box betting tickets are the same price.
Race venue
Fill in the velodrome you are betting on. Fill in “前日” if you are betting on a race being held the next day.
Wager type
Fill in the type of wager you want to make.
Race No.
Fill in the number of the race you want to bet on. Make sure you enter the race No. correctly.
Your bet
Fill in the numbers of the bicycles (or brackets, depending on the wager type you selected) you want to bet on. Your selection here will depend on the type of wager you selected.
For formation sheets, you can select as many numbers for the 1st place, 2nd place, and 3rd place columns. (On a nagashi sheet, you can select only one number for one of the finishing places, and multiple numbers for the others.) For a box sheet, you can select up to 9 numbers.
Wager amount
Fill in the amount of money you want to bet. Use the box on the right to indicate whether the amount on the left is in hundreds of yen (), thousands of yen () or tens of thousands of yen ().
Cancel
Lets you cancel a bet on the mark sheet without having to erase all the marks or get a new sheet.
(The format of some mark sheets may vary somewhat from this example.)
