Star Sports Place Terms 2026: The Full Schedule

The Star Sports place terms schedule

Star Sports follows the standard UK industry place-count schedule. The number of places paid on an each-way bet depends on field size and race type:

Field size	Handicap places	Non-handicap places
2–4 runners	Win only	Win only
5–7 runners	2 places (1/4 odds)	2 places (1/4 odds)
8+ runners (non-handicap)	—	3 places (1/5 odds)
8–11 runners (handicap)	3 places (1/5 odds)	—
12–15 runners (handicap)	3 places (1/4 odds)	—
16+ runners (handicap)	4 places (1/4 odds)	—

Key features of the schedule:

• Standard industry terms — this table applies across UK and Irish racing on every race day. There are no enhanced variants for specific meetings, festivals or trained-team races.
• No headline Extra Places programme on the Grand National, Cheltenham handicaps, Royal Ascot handicaps, or other big festival races where the corporates compete aggressively on enhanced place terms.
• No customisable each-way product equivalent to Bet365's or William Hill's "Each Way Extra".
• Non-Runner No Bet interaction — where NRNB applies (four Championship races at Cheltenham 2026), the each-way place schedule applies normally after non-runners have been voided.

What rivals do differently

Betfred runs 6 places on the 2026 Grand National plus daily Super Extra Place Races through the jumps season — on a typical Saturday jumps card, 2–4 races might carry enhanced place terms (5 or 6 places where the standard would be 3 or 4).

Paddy Power runs 6 places on the 2026 Grand National, plus enhanced place terms on selected Cheltenham Festival handicaps (often 5 places where the standard would be 4), plus ad-hoc Extra Places promotions on featured Saturday races.

William Hill as 2026 Grand National sponsor pays 5 places on the race plus customisable Each Way Extra across all UK and Irish racing.

Coral runs daily Extra Places on selected races plus 7 places on Coral-sponsored Cheltenham races (Coral Cup, historically).

Bet365 runs ad-hoc Extra Places on big Saturday handicaps plus Each Way Extra as the daily tool.

Against these, Star Sports' place-terms product is materially weaker. There is no enhanced programme, no customiser, no ad-hoc Saturday extras on featured meetings.

The practical implications

For each-way punters whose betting is concentrated on:

• Grand National — using Star Sports as an each-way account costs you 1 or 2 places of protection vs Betfred, Paddy Power or William Hill. Don't do it.
• Cheltenham handicaps — Paddy Power, Coral and Betfred all offer enhanced place terms. Star Sports does not. Use a corporate account for Cheltenham Festival each-way betting.
• Big Saturday handicaps generally — the corporates run regular extra-places promotions. Star Sports does not participate.
• Small field races — Star Sports' standard terms are equivalent to rivals, because extra-places programmes typically don't apply to small fields anyway. Parity here.

The place-terms gap is one of the clearest reasons why Star Sports is best used as a specialist complement rather than a primary each-way racing account. Use Star Sports for ante-post Championship races (where NRNB applies) and phone-betting at size; use Betfred or Paddy Power for festival each-way betting where the extra-places value sits.

See our Star Sports each-way terms for the broader context and full Star Sports review.