Horse racing odds API for Australia

Measured coverage, Australian thoroughbreds

Measured 18 September 2026 on the public coverage-report.json, recomputed from the production store every half hour. Customer-served figures; the withheld reference books are excluded.

What the API returns for a thoroughbred race

/v1/racing/next-to-go?categories=horse is the endpoint paying customers call most. Each race carries venue, race number, distance, track condition, jump time, scratchings and a runner list; each runner carries a win and place price from every bookmaker quoting it, with the bookmaker key and the age of that quote. Pass num_races=200 to pull every race currently carrying odds in one call.

The panel behind those prices is TAB, TABtouch, BetDeluxe, Betr, PointsBet, BetRight, Palmerbet, NextBet (formerly PlayUp), Unibet, Ladbrokes, Neds, Sportsbet, BetGold and BoostBet — measured over the trailing 7 days to 18 September 2026 on the public coverage report, which recomputes itself from the production store every half hour.

Betfair Exchange is ingested for internal reference and withheld from customer responses pending a data licence. Exchange prices are not included in any response on any plan.

The endpoints a racing product needs

Card and schedule. /v1/racing/events lists every AU and NZ race up to 24 hours ahead, before any book has priced it. /v1/racing/venues is the canonical venue directory and /v1/racing/track-conditions the going, rail and weather with today's change log.

Best price. /v1/racing/best-odds returns the best win, place and tote price per runner with the book offering it, a market_percentage for the field and a per-runner spread between best and worst quote.

Movement. /v1/racing/changes is a cursor feed of everything that moved since your last poll, so a live board is one small call instead of a card re-download. /v1/racing/movers ranks steamers and drifters confirmed by a minimum number of books.

Results. /v1/racing/results returns finishing order, settled fixed prices, dividends, scratchings and deductions. status is interim until placings have held for 30 minutes, then final; settle only against final.

Form. /v1/racing/horses/form parses an Australian thoroughbred's career record, profile and recent runs from Racing Australia's public horse page, with sectionals and in-running positions where RA publishes them. Plus and above can queue a paced bulk backfill.

Freshness and history

Each race carries data_age_seconds, freshest_age_seconds and a stale flag, so your code reads the age of a quote rather than assuming a refresh interval. Capture is change-only: a price that holds is stored once.

Every price move in the final 60 minutes before the jump is kept for 45 days and readable through /v1/racing/price-history; the closing line and full price path of every race are archived permanently from 4 August 2026. The historical racing odds API page covers depth and plan gates in detail.

Endpoints on this page

Credit costs are read from the API's own source at render time. The full table, with plan gates, is on API pricing; parameters, status codes and response schemas are in the API reference.

Example request — 2 credits

curl

curl 'https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/racing/next-to-go?categories=horse&country=AU&num_races=5' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

Python

import requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.puntersedge.online/v1/racing/next-to-go",
    params={"categories": "horse", "country": "AU", "num_races": 5},
    headers={"X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}, timeout=15)
r.raise_for_status()
for race in r.json():
    print(race["venue"], "R%s" % race["race_number"], race["start_time"])
    for runner in race["runners"]:
        priced = [b for b in runner["bookmakers"] if b.get("win_price")]
        if priced:
            best = max(priced, key=lambda b: b["win_price"])
            print("  ", runner["number"], runner["name"], best["key"], best["win_price"])

One call costs 2 credits regardless of how many races or bookmakers come back. The free tier's 1,500 credits a month are enough to build against; the Standard plan is where a polling product lives.

Full parameter table, status codes and response schema: API reference →. Keys go in the X-API-Key header — see Authentication.

Start with a free API key

1,500 credits a month, no card. The same data as every paid plan. Move to Standard when a polling product needs the volume. Past that the tiers are about rights, not size: personal use on free, hobby and standard; display with attribution on plus; commercial use on business and unlimited; redistribution on platform.