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In the United States a sportsbook or a race and sports book (sometimes abbreviated as book) is a place where a gambler can wager on various sports competitions, including golf, football, basketball, baseball, ice hockey, soccer, horse racing, greyhound racing, boxing, and mixed martial arts. A sportsbook is the same thing as a “bookmaker” or “bookie.” It’s a company or individual who accepts bets from individual sports bettors.

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There are currently 27 names in this directory beginning with the letter C.
Calc Time
Calculated time taking into account the going.

Calls
During a race, greyhound's position at specific points of the track.

Canadian
A multiple bet consisting of 26 bets (10 doubles, 10 trebles, 5 four-folds and a five-fold).

Case Money
Emergency money.

Chalk
A term for the team that is the favorite in an event. This team or player is usually a big favorite. The chalk is the expected winner by a large margin.

Chalk Player
A bettor who almost always backs favorites.

Chase
Having lost money on a bet, "chasing" is having another bet simply to try and get back the loss, usually on a random wager.

Chattering
Sometimes you will see a Greyhound that looks like they are freezing because their teeth are chattering when it is a nice warm day. They are not cold but rather this indicates excitement.

Chipping
You have heard the saying with potato chips that “you can’t just have one” Ex-racing Greyhound owners use this term to tell people that if you have one, another one is just a matter of time, just like eating potato chips. Explains why most Greyhound owners have more than one Greyhound. If you just have one, and go to a ex-racing Greyhound event, you will get the knowing looks and head nods that indicate it’s not a matter of if, but when.

Circle Game
A game is circled by a sportsbook because betting limits are lower than usual. This most often happens when there’s a questionable injury before a game. It can also happen if there’s potentially bad weather, a trade rumor, or the possibility of “load management” which might give a player a night off.

Clear Book
When the bookmaker wins all the stakes on a particular race.

Clerk of the Scales
The official responsible for weighing the jockeys correctly at the end of a race.

Closing Line
This is simply where the point spread is when the game begins.

Closing Line Value
This term is used by bettors to measure the value of the line they wagered before the line that was the last available before a game begins.

Co-Favourite
When three or more selections in a race market share the same price/odds.

Cockfighting
It is an organized fight between two roosters held in a ring called a cock pit

Cockroach
Greyhounds' favourite sleeping position in which the dog's legs are in the air while he is lying on his back.

Commission Agent
A person who is not acting as a bookmaker, but who places bets with a bookmaker or several bookmakers on behalf of a client or clients.

Consensus
The general agreement about something. In sports betting consensus could be the most popular teams bet or line available for a game.

Contrarian
Betting against the trends of the mainstream popular opinions. Bettors usually place contrarian wagers when there is value on the opposite opinion.

Cop It
When a bookmaker wins money on a race.

Correct Score
One of many football (soccer) betting types, where you try to predict the correct score of a match between more than 20 different outcomes.

Course Representative
A person who represents an on- course bookmaker and who passes all bets to the bookmaker. Also known as a 'representative'. A representative who fails to pass on all bets to the bookmaker should be deemed to be an on-course bookmaker.

Coursing
The activity of hunting with sighthounds, that is dogs which utilise their sight and speed to catch a prey (e.g. hares, rabbits, foxes, antelope, gazelle, deer, wolves, jackals, jack-rabbits, coyotes).

Covering
The spreadThe same as betting against the point spread and winning.

Crate
A box in which a greyhound is housed at a race track, usually for 20 hours a day; because of crating retired adopted greyhounds have no problem being kept in small rooms indoors.

CSF (Computer Straight Forecast)
A bet predicting the first two home in a race in the correct order. The dividend is calculated by computer.
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