Extra places and offers on horse racing
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.
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In this section
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Extra-place questions, answered briefly
Short answers on offers and conditions.
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What are extra places, and when do bookmakers offer them?
Definition and the conditions to read.
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How do Each Way Extra-style place options work?
Permanent options for changing places.
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How does Best Odds Guaranteed work on horse racing?
Early price against starting price.
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Can you use a free bet on an each-way bet?
What offer terms say about each way.
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What is a free bet?
Stake not returned, and what that means.
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What are enhanced odds and how do they work?
Boosted prices and their conditions.
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Do extra-place offers come with a lower price or fraction?
A fact check.
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Are enhanced odds good value, or just marketing?
A fact check.
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Ten things to read in any extra-places or free-bet offer
A checklist.
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What must a betting offer advert show about its conditions?
The rule on significant conditions.
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What does the 10x wagering limit mean for betting offers?
The rule on wagering requirements.
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Offer turnover calculator
Turnover needed for a stated requirement.
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.
| Rule | What it requires | Date |
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| 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 comes first. Then place options that change the places on a race, and Best Odds Guaranteed. Free bets, free bets used each way and enhanced odds each have a page.
Claims we check
Do extra places come with a lower price or fraction? and are enhanced odds good value? test two claims that circulate widely, using the terms the bookmakers publish.
Rules and tools
Read the significant conditions rule and the 10x wagering limit. The offer turnover calculator turns a wagering requirement into a figure, and the checklist of ten things to read 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 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, and the standard terms they are measured against are in each-way betting explained.
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 are filled.
18+ only. Gambling can be harmful.
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