Boat Racing betting on Japan's motorboat stadiums
Boat Racing on this site means Japan's motorboat racing, staged at venues that call themselves BOAT RACE courses. Every race follows the same shape: six boats, three laps of a 600-metre course, 1,800 metres in total. Japan has 24 of these stadiums, and in the pre-match line each championship is one of them, named after its city and prefecture.
Stadiums in place of leagues
Expect a list of venues rather than tournaments: Edogawa in Tokyo Prefecture, Marugame in Kagawa, Kiryu in Gunma, Amagasaki in Hyōgo, Kojima in Okayama, Tsu in Mie, Tokoname and Gamagōri in Aichi, plus Fukuoka, Karatsu in Saga and Mikuni in Fukui. The figure in brackets after each name is the number of races open at that venue. Expand the Edogawa race card or Marugame's races and the day's programme appears in running order, Race 1, Race 2 and onwards, each with its own date and start time.
Boat numbers and colours
Each boat carries a number from 1 to 6, and that number fixes the colour of both the hull and the racer's kit. Section 10.34 of the site's betting rules pairs them like this:
Boat number | Colour |
|---|---|
1 | white |
2 | black |
3 | red |
4 | blue |
5 | yellow |
6 | green |
The same number leads every selection on a race page, written as "No.(1)" and followed by the racer's name in Latin letters and then in Japanese characters. Few readers will remember the names; the number is enough to track one boat across every market on the page.
What you can back in a race
Winner: a single boat, the first one home.
First Two Places In The Specified Order: first and second, each in its exact slot.
First Two Places In Any Order: the same pair at the front, whichever of them wins.
First Three Places In The Specified Order: the whole podium, in sequence.
In a pairing written "No.2 And No.3", the order on screen matters for the specified-order markets: boat 2 has to win and boat 3 has to come second. The any-order market pays either way round.
Flying starts and unfinished races
Boats never start from a standstill. They approach the line at speed and must cross it inside a one-second window set by a start clock. Too early is marked F, too late is marked L, and each race page explains what happens to bets on such a boat. If a race is not completed and no official result is declared, bets are void apart from markets already decided.
Boat racing sits in the pre-match section, next to the other sports in the full pre-match betting line. To stake dirhams on a race at Kiryu or Edogawa, start by creating a 1xBet account.