If you place a bet for a horse to win, place or show it may be as follows:
If you bet the 4 horse for WPS your horse has to come in just as stated to Win the race, Place in the race first or second, or Show in the race in the first, second or third.
Win Place Show To place means to finish second.
There are many different ways to bet on horses, but not all of them are equally successful. For example, if you're betting with racing experts then there's a good chance that you'll have a much higher success rate than if you're betting by yourself.
Win, place and show are types of bets. Win is paid to the horse that finishes first. Place is paid to the horses finishing first or second. Show is paid to the horses that finish first, second or third. The money pools for win, place and show aer separate.
either coming in 1st 2nd or 3rd
This is the show horse. Win, place and show.
horse steeling does not happen very much. but if your horse is some racing or show jumping hero the horse is more likely to get stolen.
When you place a Trifecta bet you get paid for win-place and show. Their are multiple ways to wager.
show jumping
A show horse is any horse that was trained to do the things that you want them to do in the shows. But sometimes there is a certain kind of horse that excels at certain types of work, for example the Hanoverian is a very good jumper, and the thoroughbred is used for racing.
In the Kentucky Derby -- and all thoroughbred races -- "win" in the horse that comes in first, "place" is the horse that finishes 2nd, and "show" is the horse that finishes 3rd.
Riding (pleasure and show), driving (pleasure and show), farm work (plowing), racing, breeding, companionship, steeplechase, jumping, polo, poles, barrel racing, cutting, reining, cross country, in-hand, dressage, equitation, ropping...there are endless uses of a well-trained horse.
Maybe some singing, or dancing, or 2,3 or 4 horse chariot racing, there are many more.