Ireland. Down Royal: the full race card for the meeting
Ireland. Down Royal is one horse racing meeting as it appears in the pre-match line: a single track, a single day and every race on that day's card. The group title pairs the country with the racecourse, and the figure in brackets counts the races it holds. Each race is an event in its own right, with a page of its own.
How a race sits on the Ireland. Down Royal card
Races are stacked in order of their start times, and every block carries the same details:
date and scheduled time of the off;
the track name, with the start repeated in GMT underneath;
the first runners, each with cloth number (№), name and a decimal price, shortest price first.
The price row scrolls sideways: swipe it to see every runner, all of them listed again under the Winner market on the race page. Tapping a price drops that horse into the bet slip at the bottom of the screen. The stake box behaves differently depending on the type chosen: in a combined ticket the amount covers the whole thing, while a system spreads it across every combination formed.
Ante-post bets under rule 10.21
Some races are open for betting well before race day, in what the rules call ante-post markets. Point 5 of rule 10.21 handles them apart from race-day bets.
When this happens | What it means for an ante-post bet |
|---|---|
The revised field is published, a day or two ahead of the race according to its class | a withdrawn horse missing from that list counts as a loser |
Race-day odds are published | ante-post betting closes |
Weather pushes racing back to the following day | the market stays open until racing starts |
Racing is cancelled altogether | ante-post stakes are refunded |
A horse is withdrawn from an event marked "Non Runner No Bet" (NRNB) | the stake comes back at odds of 1 |
Settlement follows a set order as well: on any one event, race-day bets are settled first and ante-post bets after them.
From the pre-match card to live racing
Each race of Ireland. Down Royal takes pre-match bets up to its actual off. Some races can also be backed while they are being run, among horse races in play; the other meetings of the day are listed under Horse Racing.
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