The order of the night's races is chosen at random from sealed tapes, so the results of the races are not known.

After the showing of a short introduction to each of the runners, a Ladbroke hostess visits each table to take bets.

As soon as the bets are in, the horses are off. At the end of the race, the MC announces the dividends as calculated by the Ladbroke's backroom team during the race; and the hostesses return to the tables to pay out the winners.

The final race is a Tricast, which uses scratch-card type tickets, each of which contains three racehorse numbers, covering all the 336 possible combinations of the eight runners. The holder of the ticket which matches the exact order of the first three horses to finish in the third race wins a guaranteed £1,000.