Eight of the Lab's top coins go to post every 15 minutes. From the gun, each horse runs on its live market cap: its place on the track is the % change since the start, with the gaps between horses drawn to scale. Five minutes later, first across the wire wins. Give back 20 points from your race high and that's a stumble.

Win first · Place first or second · Show top three · Exacta first and second in order · Trifecta top three in order · Daily Double the winners of this race and the next. Pools are pari-mutuel: payouts come out of what everyone bet, so a longshot that gets home pays big.

Every railbird starts with a stack of chips and gets topped up daily. Chips are for bragging rights on the leaderboard only: no cash value, nothing to buy, nothing to cash out. The Lab sets the morning line and gets graded on how often its favorite comes home.