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Hard-to-win bet at the racetrack
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trifecta
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In American and Australian horse racing terminology, a trifecta is a parimutuel bet in which the bettor must predict which horses will finish first, second, and third in exact order. The word comes from the related betting term, perfecta . A trifecta is ...
Usage examples of trifecta.
No fresh tourist corpses had popped up and even the Trifecta Massacre had turned into a dead end, the bomber having made a clean getaway.
For the trifecta, you choose the three dogs that finish first, but it's really hard to get those.
There were center-hall colonials and Victorians and an occasional New England saltbox, but most frequent were the Tudors, and I found myself daydreaming about someday hitting a Trifecta or marrying a rich widow and moving into one of them.