Has this happened before?

26/05/2009 | By More

Manic scenes on Monday at the last race at Leicester. Out of the original 14 runner field six horses never started the race. Not unusual for non-runners, but five of these horses made it to the start but never got into the stalls. As a result of the non applicable reduction factors Betfair SP returned 98%. Not such great news for layers!

I don’t have extensive records for this, but the records I do have go back about three years and I’ve never seen this before. I’ve seen three in one race before but never five horses at the start that fail to run. Technical failures have caused problems in the past. I remember a race at Redcar where only half the stalls opened which obviously caused problems. But five non starters due to failure to load, must be some sort of record?

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I left a good job in the consumer technology industry to go a trade on Betfair for a living way back in June 2000. I've been here ever since pushing very boundaries of what's possible on betting exchanges and loved every minute of it.

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