The advertised times of races, the runners, the returns, and the results as published in the national / sporting press govern the settlement of all bets, errors and omissions excepted. Through-the-Card type instructions are determined by reference to the published race programme, as are the instructions First Race, Last Race, etc.
We settle bets placed on UK and Irish horse racing on both the First Past the Post announcement and the official Weighed In Result (please see Rule 13.1 for further details). Bets on Horse racing from countries other than the UK and Ireland will be settled on the official Weighed in Result only; however customers may place First Past the Post bets on request (see Rule 13.2). Where a result is amended after the Weigh In, for example further to a successful appeal, the amendment will be ignored for settlement purposes.
In the event of no Starting Prices or Industry Starting Prices being returned, selections for a horse race for which a price has not been laid are settled at Tote returns or vice-versa, but greyhound selections for which a price has not been laid are made void and treated for settlement purposes as non-runners. Bets on unnamed favourites will be treated as void for settlement purposes where a Tote price is not available.
Each-way doubles, trebles and accumulators are settled win to win and place to place; unless the instruction each-way all each-way or equally divided is clearly requested by the customer, then the bet is settled by this method.
A bet is deemed to be related if either:
i) The same selection is chosen to win two or more different events and is combined in an Accumulator or other Multiple bet.
ii) Different selections are chosen in the same event and combined in an Accumulator or other Multiple bet
The cumulative odds for bets such as these if quoted in error will not apply. Instead your bet will be settled at the special related odds (if they were on offer at the time) or your stakes will be equally divided where any selections which are deemed related clash.
Where a horse and greyhound selection have the same name, the bet will stand for the horse selection, unless otherwise instructed.
Where two or more horses or greyhounds with the same name run in the same race and the customer does not make it clear which selection they intended to back; the bet will stand on the horse with the lowest returned price. If both horses are returned at the same price then the bet will stand on the horse with the lowest race card number.
In the event of a dead heat for first place, the stake money on a winning selection is divided by the number of winners in the dead heat, and the full odds paid to the reduced stake, with the remainder of the stake money being lost.
For example if two horses dead-heat for first place and a customer placed a £20 win single on one of the dead-heated horses, they would receive £10 at the full starting price.
Similar rules apply when dealing with dead-heated placed selections. In the event that the dead -heat on a place does not affect the normal number of places which we would payout on a given event, we would payout the full amount. However, should a dead-heat increase the normal number of placed selections paid we would reduce the stake unit accordingly.
For example if three horses dead-heat for fourth place (in a 16 runner handicap) and a customer place a £15 each-way single, they would receive one third of their stake (£5) at the full place odds.
For Greyhound racing, when instructing either through the card or last X number of races, bets will be settled on the basis of the full race card.
