Talk:Trifecta

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Could be expanded a bit. Personally, the growing use of this term to describe anything in 3's really rubs me the wrong way.

[edit] "Death Trifecta"

I've added a new piece to this article. Is this good enough to stay, and if so, could someone expand it possibly into its own article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Raderick (talk • contribs) 11:08, 27 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Odds on?

Can somebody explain how the odds (or value) is calculated? Jimmy the Geek 06:35, 3 September 2007 (UTC)~

[edit] Merge with Horse racing?

Doesn't merging this article and the Exacta article into the Horse racing article seem like a good idea to anyone else? These seem like obvious subsections to that article, but hardly seem to warrant articles of their own. The articles' brevity is further evidence that they might not warrant their own article. Rray 04:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

An exacta or trifecta is a type of bet in any event with a series of winners. Dog races, horse races, whatever. I redirected exacta to parimutuel betting, where it is already explained, but trifecta has been co-opted into mainstream english for other meanings. SchmuckyTheCat

Since I've never heard the "politics" usage, and no citations have been supplied, I believe that section should be removed. What remains would be a stub consisting of essentially a definition of a word. This being an encyclopedia, not a dictionary, it would then be appropriate to incorporate the betting-related content into, say, Parimutuel betting, and simply discard the rest as inappropriate to an encyclopedia. 128.230.72.70 (talk) 14:06, 13 May 2008 (UTC)