Race

Object type

A single race within a meeting. Child of Meeting; parent container for Runner. Carries the race’s classification (type, surface, distance, class/pattern, handicap), eligibility, prize money, conditions overrides, and full lifecycle status. The auto-classified header-decomposition fields (jockeyCondition, experienceCondition, etc.) summarise the race’s conditions of entry in a queryable form.

Fields

Field	Args	Type	Description
id	—	ID! required	Stable Podium identifier (UUID).
raceNumber	—	Int! required	1-indexed position of the race on the meeting card. Values at or above 1000 are NOT card positions: they are reconciliation slots, where ingestion parks a race it could not place on the real card. No field returning a COLLECTION of races (racesForMeeting, upcomingRaces, Meeting.races) returns one, so every raceNumber reached that way is a real card position. The single exception is Meeting.reconciliationSlots, the operator surface that exists to return exactly those rows and nothing else; it is internal-tier, so it is not in your schema unless you are reading the operator one. Several routes still reach a parked race, and are meant to — each resolves ONE race, so it returns what was asked for: - race(id:), if you already hold the id. - Runner.race on an entry collection such as entriesForParticipant. A horse’s history includes its entry on the parked row. - Tip.race on tipsForDate, which is date-scoped rather than race-scoped. Editorial tier only — if tipsForDate is not in your schema, this route does not apply to you. Through any of those raceNumber may be >= 1000: check the value before treating it as a card position. Treat these as the routes worth naming rather than a closed set — the rule to rely on is the one above, that no field returning a COLLECTION OF RACES yields a parked row, bar the one field named there whose whole purpose is to. The two rules meet where a parked race points back at its own meeting, and the result looks inconsistent unless you are expecting it: from a parked Race, meeting.races does NOT contain the race you started from, and meeting.raceCount does not count it. That is the rule working, not a gap — the collection is the card, and a parked row is not on it. On the operator schema it is on meeting.reconciliationSlots instead. Ordering by raceNumber is safe; assuming it is CONTIGUOUS is not. Gaps are ordinary — a race deleted from a card, or moved to another meeting, leaves its number unused — so read it as a stable ordinal, never as an index into the returned list, and never infer the card size from its maximum (use Meeting.raceCount).
division	—	Int	Division number (1, 2, …) when a race is split into divisions because the field is oversubscribed; null for an undivided race. Each division is its own race with its own id, runners and result. Symmetric across UK (Weatherbys) and Irish (IHRB) racing.
scheduledTime	—	DateTime! required	Advertised off-time (with timezone). May change pre-race-day if the card is reshuffled; on race day this value is fixed even if the race starts late — the actual start time is captured on offTime.
offTime	—	DateTime	Actual time the race went off. Populated post-race; null until then.
status	—	RaceStatus! required	—
title	—	String	Race title from a titled feed (ED/OD/PD/IHRB/Calendar XML/RP-Calendar). Null until one lands — clients should render Race ${raceNumber} as the placeholder. On a reconciliation slot (see raceNumber) that placeholder reads as a card position the meeting does not have — “Race 1004” on an eight-race card. Worth knowing if you render a race reached by id, but treat it as a caveat rather than a rule you must already satisfy. The label problem is solved by CONTEXT rather than by this field — on the internal operator surface that lists these rows, they are labelled by the surface they appear on — so title stays the race’s own title and nothing else.
titleAbbreviated	—	String	Short title for compact displays (mobile, navigation). Null if the source did not provide one.
header	—	String	Conditions-of-race header — the structured eligibility/penalty text that governs the race (distinct from title). Operationally important: gets decomposed into the jockeyCondition / experienceCondition / commerceCondition / handicapOption fields by the auto-classifier.
raceType	—	RaceType! required	—
surface	—	SurfaceType	Racing surface for this race. Null until a surface-bearing feed lands.
distance	—	Distance	Race distance. Null until a distance-bearing feed lands.
class	—	String	Race class as the CLASS_1–CLASS_7 enum form. Class and pattern are distinct elements, but a pattern race is always CLASS_1 (see pattern). Null until a class-bearing feed lands.
pattern	—	PatternType	Pattern designation for prestige races: Group 1–3, Grade 1–3, or Listed (Group = flat, Grade = jumps — one field). Null for ordinary races. When set, class is always CLASS_1.
handicap	—	Boolean! required	True when weights are assigned by official rating rather than race conditions.
eligibility	—	RaceEligibility	—
goingOfficial	—	GoingType	Race-level going override. When null, the race inherits meeting.conditions.going.official.
prizeMoney	—	PrizeMoney	—
declarationStage	—	DeclarationStage! required	—
sourceDeclarationType	—	String	Provider-specific declaration file type that produced the current declarationStage (e.g. WEATHERBYS_OD, IHRB_OVERNIGHT). Use for traceability back to the upstream feed; for lifecycle logic prefer the canonical declarationStage enum.
televised	—	Boolean! required	True when the race is scheduled to be televised.
broadcasters	—	[Broadcaster!]! required	Broadcasters (TV channels) that broadcast this race, ordered by name.
maxRunners	—	Int	Safety factor — the maximum declared runners the course/feed allows for this race. Sourced from Weatherbys RP-Calendar or the XML calendar feed; null until either lands. Use as the denominator for “active / max” displays.
activeRunnerCount	—	Int! required	Active declared runner count — excludes NON_DECLARED, NON_RUNNER, WITHDRAWN, and DISQUALIFIED entries. Use as a cheap “active runners” badge on race lists / tables where the full runners[] array would be over-fetch.
winningTimeSeconds	—	Float	Winning time in seconds. Populated once the race result has been settled.
stewardsInquiry	—	String	Status of any stewards’ inquiry (NO_INQUIRY, STEWARDS_MAY_AFFECT, STEWARDS_NOT_AFFECT). Null when no inquiry has been called.
stewardsObjection	—	String	Status of any objection raised. Null when no objection has been lodged.
stewardsResolution	—	String	Resolution of an inquiry or objection (RESULT_STANDS, AMENDED_RESULT). Null until the matter is resolved.
jockeyCondition	—	JockeyCondition	Jockey-condition component of the race header (e.g. LADIES, APPRENTICE). Derived by auto-classification, editor-reviewable.
experienceCondition	—	ExperienceCondition	Experience-condition component of the race header (NOVICE, MAIDEN).
commerceCondition	—	CommerceCondition	Commerce-condition component of the race header (SELLER, CLAIMER, AUCTION).
handicapOption	—	HandicapOption	Granular handicap classification that supplements the boolean handicap field — distinguishes handicaps, conditional handicaps, conditions races, and stakes races.
headerConfidence	—	HeaderConfidence	Auto-classification confidence (HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, MANUAL). MANUAL indicates an editor set the classification directly.
headerStatus	—	HeaderStatus	Editorial workflow status for the header classification (auto-classified, editor-confirmed, editor-corrected, pending review).
headerClassifiedAt	—	DateTime	When the auto-classification pipeline last ran for this race.
headerReviewedBy	—	String	Editor who confirmed or corrected the classification, if any.
headerReviewedAt	—	DateTime	When the editor review took place.
headerClassificationDetail	—	HeaderClassificationDetail	Per-field provenance and plausibility-rule diagnostics for the classification. Drives UI cues for uncertain fields.
abandonedReason	—	String	Reason if the race has been abandoned (e.g. 'Course inspection failed'). Null otherwise.
abandonedAt	—	DateTime	Timestamp the race was abandoned. Null otherwise.
meeting	—	Meeting! required	The parent meeting this race belongs to.
runners	—	[Runner!]! required	All runner entries for this race — declared, reserve, non-runner, and withdrawn alike. Filter on Runner.status for the active field.
pendingNonRunners	—	[PendingNonRunner!]! required	Entries held in PENDING_NON_RUNNER awaiting BHA verification. Empty when none are pending.
source	—	String! required	Origin of the race row. 'manual' for races created via createRace; otherwise the ingestion provider tag (commonly 'ingested'). Drives destructive-action gating: only source = 'manual' races may be deleted; ingested races use abandonRace.
version	—	Int! required	Optimistic-locking version counter — increments on every write.
createdAt	—	DateTime! required	—
updatedAt	—	DateTime! required	—
provenance	—	RaceProvenance! required	Aggregate freshness derived from change_log — the most recent change across the race row and its runners, verdicts, tips and comments. Prefer this over updatedAt for “last updated” provenance UI: updatedAt only tracks writes to the race row itself and goes stale when only a child entity changes.