Dead Heat
When two or more dogs cannot be separated at the finish even on photo review. Winning selections settle on a proportionally reduced allocation.
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 selection settles at the full market price on a fractional allocation — typically half when two dogs dead-heat, one-third when three dogs dead-heat, etc. Example: a 10-unit win selection at price 4.0 on a dog that dead-heats with one other returns:
- Effective allocation: 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 selection uses the same fractional rule.