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Horse Racing Placings
Where a horse finishes and has finished, its placings, is an obviously important factor when studying
horse racing form. Although to most experienced horse racing fans
much of this information is already known, this page acts as a reference for everything relating to horse racing placings and places.
Contents
- Placing descriptions
- Places paid (each way terms)
- Places on HorseRaceBase
Placing descriptions
In certain areas you will see shortened descriptions of placings, some of these are
obvious and need not be listed (example 1 is obviously first and 33 is clearly thirty third), however you may require
clarification on some of the more obscure references and these are listed below for your reference.
| Placing Description | Shortened |
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| Brought Down | BD | | Carried Out | CO | | Disqualified | DSQ | | Fell | F | | Left at Start | LFT | | Pulled Up | PU | | Ran Off Course | RO | | Refused to Jump | REF | | Refused to Race | RR | | Slipped Up | SU | | Unseated Rider | UR | | Void Run | // |
Places Paid (each way terms)
When you are backing certain horses you will wish to do so each way. This means you are placing one bet on the
selected horse to win and another on it to finish in the paid places in the race. The number of places paid differs dependent on
number of competitors and race type. It is worth noting some bookmakers (in particular
 Paddy Power) also offer advanced places for certain races.
Below are the normal places paid rules adhered to.
- Less than 5 runners. Winner Only.
- 5,6 or 7 runners. Quarter Odds - Two Places.
- Handicaps with between 8 and 15 runners. Quarter odds - 3 places.
- Handicaps with 16 or more runners. Quarter odds - 4 places.
- All other races. Fifth odds - 3 places.
We were contacted by a few members who felt place statistics displayed in several places throughout the site should reflect only the number of non-winning
placed runs. Hence we created an option within your account to allow this to be possible. The standard set-up will show place statistics to include wins within the figures
however if you wish to amend this, you can do so easily by using this option. To give an example, by choosing to exclude wins, if you were examining the
form of a horse who had won twenty times out of twenty runs, the place stats would show 0. The standard practice used by HorseRaceBase would show 20 (as
a winning run also pays out for a place). The choice of how you prefer to view place statistics is entirely yours with this option.
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