Horse Racing Results Today: Irish Meetings Race by Race

Horse racing results for today's Irish meetings are in the feed at the top of this page, race by race, as each result is made official. Every finisher's position and starting price is listed there; this page explains what those figures mean for the bet on your slip.

Racing wire

Meetings are posted here each morning from the official fixture list.

We add nothing to the results by hand and we do not print them before the feed carries them. If the feed shows a race as pending, the result has not been confirmed yet, usually because of a photo finish or a stewards' inquiry. Betting on racing is for adults: 18+ only.

Horse racing results: what a result line tells you

A result line packs a lot into one row. Read it left to right:

• Position. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on. A horse that fell, unseated its rider or was pulled up has a letter in place of a number.
• Distances. The gap to the horse in front, in lengths or fractions of a length. A short head, a head and a neck are the narrow ones.
• Starting price (SP). The on-course fixed-odds price at the off. It is what you are paid at if you took SP, and it is the benchmark for best-odds offers.
• Favourite marker. The SP favourite is usually flagged, with joint favourites marked where two share the shortest price.
• Non-runners. Horses withdrawn after declarations. These matter for Rule 4, below.

Our racecards page covers the other side of the same coin: how the card looked before the off.

Today's racing results and the starting price

If you backed a horse at a fixed price, the SP in the result does not change your return, with one exception. Many bookmakers on the Irish market pay a winner at the starting price when it turns out bigger than the price you took. The conditions (which races, from what time on the day, any cap on the payout) belong to each firm, and our best odds bookmakers page compares them.

A worked example: EUR 10 taken at 4/1, and the horse wins at an SP of 6/1. On best-odds terms the bet is settled at 6/1, so it returns EUR 70 instead of EUR 50. Had the SP been 3/1, you keep the 4/1.

Non-runners and Rule 4 in the results

When a horse is withdrawn too late for the market to be re-formed, winning bets on the rest of the field have a deduction taken from the winnings, not the stake. The size depends on the withdrawn horse's price at the time: from 5p in the euro for a 10/1 to 14/1 shot, up to 90p for a horse at 1/9 or shorter, with nothing taken if it was bigger than 14/1. Stakes on the withdrawn horse are refunded. Ante-post bets are not subject to Rule 4.

Withdrawn horse's price	Deduction from winnings
Evens to 6/5	45p in the euro
5/4 to 6/4	40p
9/5 to 9/4	30p
12/5 to 3/1	25p
9/2 to 11/2	15p
6/1 to 9/1	10p
10/1 to 14/1	5p
over 14/1	none

The table is an extract of the bands that come up most. Where more than one horse comes out, the deductions combine, capped at 90p.

A worked example: EUR 20 on a 7/2 winner, with a 6/4 shot withdrawn at the start. The winnings would have been EUR 70. A 40p deduction leaves EUR 42, and with the EUR 20 stake the return is EUR 62.

Checking a settlement against the result

Most settlement queries come down to three things: the place terms on an each-way bet, a Rule 4 deduction, and whether a best-odds concession applied. Check your bet history line against the result in this order:

1. Confirm the finishing position and the number of runners that actually started. Place terms depend on the field at the off, not the field at declaration.
2. Look for non-runners in the result and their prices at withdrawal.
3. Compare the price you took with the SP if the firm offers best-odds terms.
4. Rework the sum with the bet calculator.

If the figures still disagree, raise it with the bookmaker first. A firm licensed by the Gambling Regulatory Authority of Ireland answers to that regulator; our licensing guide explains who that covers.

Fast results, stewards' inquiries and amended placings

Results appear in stages. The judge calls the placings, a photo is examined where the finish is tight, and the stewards can hold an inquiry into interference. Bookmakers settle on the official result declared on the day; how a firm treats a placing changed later on appeal is set out in its own betting rules. That is why "fast results" from an unofficial source can be wrong, and why the feed waits for the official line.

Which meetings appear in the results

Ireland has 26 racecourses on an all-island basis, 24 in the Republic and two in Northern Ireland, staging about 380 meetings a year under Horse Racing Ireland, with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board in charge of the Rules of Racing. Racing runs most days of the year, Flat and jumps, Dundalk's all-weather track among them.

Festival results carry their own pages: the Grand National at Aintree and Fairyhouse, and the Cheltenham, Punchestown, Galway and Leopardstown meetings each have a page under the racing section.

Not horses? GAA and Lotto results

This page deals only with racing. GAA results and fixtures are on the GAA tips page, and the National Lottery draws, including EuroMillions and Daily Million results, are on the Lotto results pages. Greyhound results are on the greyhound racing page.

A result is the end of a bet, not the start of the next one. If chasing a loser has become a habit, the safer gambling page sets out deposit limits, time-outs and where to get help in Ireland.