Dead Heat
When two or more dogs cannot be separated at the finish even on photo review. Winning bets pay out at proportional reduced stakes.
A dead heat is declared when the photo-finish judge cannot separate two or more dogs at the line. Both (or all) are declared winners.
Settlement rule: a winning bet is paid out at full odds on a fractional stake — typically half stake when two dogs dead-heat, one-third when three dogs dead-heat, etc. Example: a £10 win bet at price 4.0 on a dog that dead-heats with one other returns:
- Effective stake: £10 × 0.5 = £5.
- Return: £5 × 4.0 = £20.
- Profit: £20 − £10 = £10 (instead of the £30 a clean win would have given).
In greyhound racing dead heats are rare — modern photo-finish cameras typically resolve gaps as small as a few millimetres — but they do happen. When they do, settlement of any pending TrapStats bet uses the same fractional rule.