Today's Horse Racing

[jamesedwards]

Southwell 18:30 suspended from 18:29:17 as part of site-wide issue.

Bet Angel history shows the race was unsuspended and went into play as normal at 18:30:47 and was suspended at the finish at 18:31:11, but in actual fact the market was suspended throughout.

[Wolf1877]

Still down by the looks of things. Are the markets being down a regular thing on Betfair these days?

[jamesedwards]

Still down by the looks of things. Are the markets being down a regular thing on Betfair these days?

No, it's been ages since the last big outage.

[jamesedwards]

Racing markets seem to be fully operational again. All races between 18:05 and 18:50 were disrupted.

[Crumpets]

The audacity of some of these plays today

[sniffer66]

Anyone else seeing anything odd in the 16:10 at Kempton. My watch list is blank on names and the ladder shows numbers for each runner, possible selection id's

[Euler]

I didn't spot anything unusual yesterday.

[sniffer66]

I didn't spot anything unusual yesterday.

I thought I was going mad but the Win market looked this this on my ladder, and only that market all else was fine, including the Place. Every runner was missing a name and had a number instead

I do some runner name retrieval via the API just pre-off, and as none of the names matched it completely threw my automation on that race

Screenshot 2026-10-05 161505.png

[eightbo]

I thought I was going mad but the Win market looked this this on my ladder, and only that market all else was fine, including the Place. Every runner was missing a name and had a number instead

I do some runner name retrieval via the API just pre-off, and as none of the names matched it completely threw my automation on that race

Looks like a selectionID as you're probably aware

Were you able to rule out a visual bug from your BA version?
For example do you call listMarketCatalogue/listRunnerDescription outside the BA environment or inside? ...and found that runnerName was = selectionId? Perhaps the former was failing for some reason on that particular marketID and a BA error handler just fetched the selectionID as a backup. Ultimately we do see odd selection names from time to time so there seems to be some human input but presumably they have checks and balances and a whole UK horse race would be easily flagged and fixed upon market creation. Could well be front end issue as historically runnerName and selectionId are identical across the place/win markets so if all was good in Place it could be your BA instance, especially if your API runner retrieval is simply exporting what your BA instance was holding for the value