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GET/horse-racing/races/live

Get live horse racing races

Returns every unsettled race whose off-time was within the last 30 minutes (status live)

Horse racing plan featurePay per call without a key: $0.002 in USDC

Response

JSON with success, the result in data, and where the endpoint pages its results meta.

  • dataarray of object
  • distancestring
  • each_wayobject

    EachWay is the most common each-way terms across bookmakers; individual bookmakers may offer different terms (see each quote's each_way).

  • fractionstring
  • placesinteger
  • idinteger
  • meetingobject
  • datestring

    Date is the local card date (YYYY-MM-DD). It can precede the UTC race_date when a card runs past midnight UTC.

  • goingstring
  • idinteger

    ID is the the data provider racecourse id. It is reused every day the course races, so a meeting is identified by (id, date).

  • namestring
  • regionstring
  • pursestring
  • race_classstring
  • race_datestring

    RaceDate and StartTime are UTC.

  • race_namestring
  • results_finalboolean

    ResultsFinal is true once every declared runner is accounted for as a finisher, a non-finisher or a non-runner.

  • runnersarray of object
  • agestring
  • distancestring
  • genderstring
  • horse_namestring
  • idinteger

    ID is the the data provider horse id.

  • jockeyobject
  • morning_lineobject
  • numberstring

    Number is the saddle-cloth number; outcome codes never appear here.

  • oddsobject
  • race_idinteger
  • ratingstring
  • recent_formobject
  • resultobject
  • stallstring
  • statusstring

    Status is "runner", "non_runner" (withdrawn) or "did_not_finish".

  • trainerobject
  • updated_atstring

    UpdatedAt is when anything about this runner last changed (UTC, RFC 3339).

  • weightstring
  • weight_lbsstring
  • runners_countinteger
  • sportstring
  • start_timestring
  • start_utcstring

    StartUTC is the scheduled off-time in ISO 8601 UTC.

  • statusstring

    Status: NS (not started), live (off within the last 30 minutes, no results yet), result_pending (off more than 30 minutes ago, no results yet), FT (results published). the data provider sends no called-off signal, so an abandoned race stays result_pending.

  • surfacestring
  • updated_atstring

    UpdatedAt is when the race or any of its runners last changed (UTC, RFC 3339).

  • wagersobject
  • errorobject
  • codestring
  • messagestring
  • metaobject
  • attributionstring

    Attribution a data source's licence asks for (Cricsheet's history).

  • limitinteger
  • offsetinteger
  • totalinteger
  • successboolean

Errors

StatusCodeWhen
401UNAUTHORIZEDThe key is missing, mistyped or was rotated.
402x402 offersNo key and no valid payment: the body lists what to pay. Only a 200 answer is charged.
403FORBIDDENThe sport or feature is not in your plan (FEATURE_NOT_IN_PLAN for Insights and other plan features).
429RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDEDToo many requests (QUOTA_EXCEEDED for the daily limit). Wait for Retry-After.
500INTERNAL_ERROROur side. Try again after a few seconds and check the status page.

All errors have the shape described in Errors and limits.

Generated from the OpenAPI file, version 1.0. See it as JSON

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