What Are Today’s Extra Place Races?

Bookies pay Extra Places on selected races every day and can result in additional profits over time from your horse racing bets.

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See the table below for today’s extra place offers which are updated automatically on a daily basis.

Extra Places Today

We update the list of Extra Place Races every morning to provide you with an up-to-date list of Extra Place Offers for the day.

Click through to each bookmaker to bet on eligible races and take advantage of the additional places available for your each way horse racing bets. We also have EW tips today from our top racing analysts.

What Are Extra Places?

Extra Places apply to each way bets and in the case of the list above, each way bets on horse racing.

When placing an each way bet, you are essentially placing two bets in one. Half of your total stake will be placed on the horse to win and the other half will be placed on the horse to finish in a place position.

Industry-standard place terms can be seen below.

• 1-4 runners: win only.
• 5-7 runners: 1/4 odds a places for 1,2.
• 8+ runners: 1/5 odds a places for 1,2,3.
• 12-15 runners (handicaps only): 1/4 odds for places 1,2,3
• 16+ runners (handicaps only)y: 1/4 odds for places 1,2,3,4

Several bookmakers offer additional places on selected races each day. When doing so, the place part of each way bets is paid out on additional places.

Betfred Extra Places are available most days and on selected races and are one of several reasons why they are one of our most recommended bookies for horse racing. Will Hill are also another great choice of bookie for horse racing with several racing offers available on a daily basis. William Hill Extra Places apply to selected races which can be found on the promotions page of the website. Lastly, you’ll also find that Paddy Power Extra Places can be found regularly on UK, Irish and International races and with offers such as Money Back if 2nd and other refund promotions available, they’re a great bookmaker account to have for your racing bets.

Example.

In a handicap race with 12 runners, bookmakers would generally pay out on each way bets if the horse finished in positions 1 – 3. However, if a bookmaker was offering an extra place on this race, they would also pay out if your runner finished in 4 position.

Essentially, they increase your chances of a return from your each way bets.

Which Bookies Pay Extra Places Most Often?

Not all bookmakers that take bets on horse racing offer Extra Places and some offer more places than others along with running the promotions more frequently.

For example, Paddy Power may be offering 6 places instead of 4 on the Grand National but Betfred may be offering 8 places instead of four on the same race.

Generally, we have found that the following bookmakers offer Extra Places most frequently.

Extra Place Bookmakers
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Glorious Goodwood Festival Extra Places

The 2025 Goodwood Festival starts on Tuesday 29th July and includes top class Flat racing action every day. The Qatar sponsored Festival includes many very competitive handicap races where bookies will be able to offer extra places for each way bets. The Stewards Cup is ran on Saturday August 3rd and is one of the highlights of the meeting, this year the race is sponsored by Coral who are sure to offer some enhanced odds and extra places on the race.   

Cheltenham Extra Places

The 2025 Cheltenham Festival is set to take place this year over four days from Tuesday 11th to Friday 14th of March and many punters are looking to get their bets on early. In fact, WhichBookie Racing Editor and Will Smith, have already shared some ante-post Cheltenham tips for this year’s festival that many followers have jumped on.

If you are planning on placing ante-post bets on Cheltenham 2025 then there are a couple of betting offers that you should be considering.

The first is Non-Runner No Bet for Cheltenham that several bookies have already announced they will be offering. The second is Cheltenham Festival Extra Places which is an offer that we’ll be looking at below and showing you which bookies are offering Extra Places on Cheltenham races this year.

Which Bookies Are Offering Extra Places On The Cheltenham Festival?

The table below lists all UK bookmakers that are offering Extra Places on the Cheltenham Festival.

Be sure to bookmark this page and visit it in the days leading up to the festival as we will be updating it when new offers are released.

Royal Ascot Extra Places

Royal Ascot 2025 is scheduled to take place from Tuesday, 17th June to Saturday, 21st June at Ascot Racecourse.

The five-day event features top races such as the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, the St James’s Palace Stakes, the Queen Anne Stakes, and of course, the Gold Cup.

Royal Ascot is one of the UK’s most popular horse racing events, drawing crowds of over 300,00 each year over the five-day festival. It’s also extremely popular with punters and as such, bookmakers tend to release an increased number of betting offers throughout the festival. Common betting offers for Royal Ascot include Free Bets, Refunds, Enhanced Odds, and Extra Places.

Customers of top betting sites such as bet365, William Hill, Betfred, and others, can expect Royal Ascot extra places to be available on several of the races on each day of the festival. Simply head back to this page from 8am on any day of Royal Ascot to view what races extra places are available on.