Today's Horse Racing

[jamesedwards]

It didn't go in play initially

Okay, I've missed the start, just watched the final furlongs. It was inplay then but got suspended prematurely.

Never put into play.

[Crumpets]

13.55 Lingfield not put in play. However i had a closing order with 'take SP' selected; that order did meet the minimum requirements.

However, the market has settled as if it were a bet and ignored SP. It's worked out for me today, but I'm unsettled.

Log says..
"Error occurred while updating bet persistence. Entire order has been rejected".

The only thing i can think of was that i clicked the hedge column to place my closing order, then clicked SP?

Any ideas? Does SP only work if market turns inplay at the off? Because if so, that safety measure is redundant

[jamesedwards]

13.55 Lingfield not put in play. However i had a closing order with 'take SP' selected; that order did meet the minimum requirements.

However, the market has settled as if it were a bet and ignored SP. It's worked out for me today, but I'm unsettled.

Log says..
"Error occurred while updating bet persistence. Entire order has been rejected".

The only thing i can think of was that i clicked the hedge column to place my closing order, then clicked SP?

Any ideas? Does SP only work if market turns inplay at the off? Because if so, that safety measure is redundant

Betfair didn't suspend the market until near the end of the race. Most likely they will have voided all bets matched between the official off-time and their suspension. I don't know what process they use to calculate SP in this instance. Perhaps this messed with your bets?

[Crumpets]

13.55 Lingfield not put in play. However i had a closing order with 'take SP' selected; that order did meet the minimum requirements.

However, the market has settled as if it were a bet and ignored SP. It's worked out for me today, but I'm unsettled.

Log says..
"Error occurred while updating bet persistence. Entire order has been rejected".

The only thing i can think of was that i clicked the hedge column to place my closing order, then clicked SP?

Any ideas? Does SP only work if market turns inplay at the off? Because if so, that safety measure is redundant

Betfair didn't suspend the market until near the end of the race. Most likely they will have voided all bets matched between the official off-time and their suspension. I don't know what process they use to calculate SP in this instance. Perhaps this messed with your bets?

That was my first thought. But I've checked the recording, and SP was clicked a final time about 5 seconds before the scheduled start time.

So maybe my laptop is a few seconds behind...Bloody hell. Time set automatically!!!

[jamesedwards]

13.55 Lingfield not put in play. However i had a closing order with 'take SP' selected; that order did meet the minimum requirements.

However, the market has settled as if it were a bet and ignored SP. It's worked out for me today, but I'm unsettled.

Log says..
"Error occurred while updating bet persistence. Entire order has been rejected".

The only thing i can think of was that i clicked the hedge column to place my closing order, then clicked SP?

Any ideas? Does SP only work if market turns inplay at the off? Because if so, that safety measure is redundant

Betfair didn't suspend the market until near the end of the race. Most likely they will have voided all bets matched between the official off-time and their suspension. I don't know what process they use to calculate SP in this instance. Perhaps this messed with your bets?

That was my first thought. But I've checked the recording, and SP was clicked a final time about 5 seconds before the scheduled start time.

So maybe my laptop is a few seconds behind...Bloody hell. Time set automatically!!!

Yeah, but presumably the late suspend messes with Betfair's handling of SP bet placement and price. How do Betfair calculate the SP? Does it get retrospectively recalculated before settlement? Probably.