# Extra places and offers on horse racing

> What extra places, place options, Best Odds Guaranteed, free bets and enhanced odds mean on UK horse racing, and the UK rules on offer conditions and wagering.

Source: https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/
Updated: 2026-11-07

Extra places are additional paid places that a bookmaker adds to a race, on conditions it sets. This section also covers place options, Best Odds Guaranteed, free bets and enhanced odds, and two Gambling Commission rules: offer conditions must be shown, and wagering on bonus funds is capped at 10 times.

## Two rules that frame every offer

Offers change within days, but the rules that govern them are more stable. Both rules below were read on 6 November 2026 and recorded here on 7 November 2026.

**UK rules on betting offers · source: Gambling Commission licence conditions · read 6 November 2026**

| Rule | What it requires | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SR 5.1.9 | Significant conditions are shown with the offer. Where space is short, a note that significant conditions apply is allowed, with the full terms one click away and available for the life of the promotion. | Current text, read 6 November 2026 |
| SR 5.1.1 | Wagering requirements on bonus funds are capped at 10 times, and bonuses may not mix betting, casino, bingo and lottery products. | In force from 19 January 2026 |

**The short version:** a UK-licensed bookmaker must show an offer's significant conditions and may not set wagering on bonus funds above 10 times.

## What is covered

### The offers themselves

[What extra places are](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/what-are-extra-places/) comes first. Then [place options](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/customised-place-terms/) that change the places on a race, and [Best Odds Guaranteed](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/best-odds-guaranteed-explained/). [Free bets](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/what-is-a-free-bet/), [free bets used each way](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/free-bets-and-each-way/) and [enhanced odds](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/price-boosts-and-enhanced-odds/) each have a page.

### Claims we check

[Do extra places come with a lower price or fraction?](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/do-extra-places-cost-you/) and [are enhanced odds good value?](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/enhanced-odds-value-claim/) test two claims that circulate widely, using the terms the bookmakers publish.

### Rules and tools

Read [the significant conditions rule](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/significant-conditions-rule/) and [the 10x wagering limit](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/wagering-cap-rule/). The [offer turnover calculator](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/offer-turnover-calculator/) turns a wagering requirement into a figure, and the [checklist of ten things to read](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/offer-conditions-checklist/) fits any offer.

## What you will not find here

We do not keep a list of today's extra places by race. A promotion described on Monday can be gone by Tuesday, so a list would be wrong within a week.

Where we show an offer, it carries a date, and once that date is more than seven days old the block is marked Data out of date.

We do not use promo codes, countdowns or urgency, and we do not say what an offer is worth to you.

**The short version:** we explain how offers work and where to read their conditions; we do not rank today's offers.

## Easily confused

An extra place is not a free bet, and a free bet is not extra money: the [free bet entry in the glossary](https://eachwayatlas.uk/glossary/) explains why the stake is not returned.

Wagering on bonus funds is also different from the turnover a normal bet needs. Quick answers are on the [extra-places FAQ](https://eachwayatlas.uk/extra-places/faq/), and the standard terms they are measured against are in [each-way betting explained](https://eachwayatlas.uk/each-way/).

## How we checked

We read the Gambling Commission licence conditions on 6 November 2026. No bookmaker's offer terms have been read for this page, so we state no offer, price or place count here.

Wording that varies by bookmaker is Not verified until the dated tables in [the data section](https://eachwayatlas.uk/data/) are filled.

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