More than 10 million combinations are possible. The wager is a little like a trifecta of trifectas it requires players to predict the top three horses, in any order, in three different heats.
6, 2001, all of Hong Kong was talking about the biggest jackpot the city had ever seen: at least HK$100 million (then about $13 million) for the winner of a single bet called the Triple Trio. Their cathedral is Happy Valley Racecourse, whose grassy oval track and floodlit stands are ringed at night by one of the sport’s grandest views: neon skyscrapers and neat stacks of high-rises, a constellation of illuminated windows, and beyond them, lush hills silhouetted in darkness.
Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth.
