Expressing odds in japanese for horse racing


I came across this line of dialogue:

> > 「もう少しで、 **４－５だった** のに、途中で落馬しやがってよぉ...ありゃぁ絶対に八百長だぜぇ」
>>

>> "The odds were so close, at 4-5, but in the middle of things, the rider
falls off his horse! It's gotta be rigged!"

I presume the character is referring to odds here, but when imagining the
character speaking I do not know how to represent the hyphen (ー) verbally (or
most maths symbols, really).

Some quick digging on
[wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%BA) suggest
that it would be represented as に, which would roughly match with english, but
my japanese is not very good so I am asking here.




It's not odds but the order of horse racing. 4-5 means that the horse of the
number 4 finished first and the horse of the number 5 finished second.




It's not odds but the order of horse racing. 4-5 means that the horse of the
number 4 finished first and the horse of the number 5 finished second.

