# Sporting Life Horse Racing Racecards

> Sporting Life Horse Racing Racecards is a paid API for AI agents from api.fadeandco.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Fetches UK, Irish, and international horse racing racecards from Sporting Life, including today's meetings, race details, runners, jockeys, trainers, odds, and betting forecasts.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.fadeandco.workers.dev/api/dev/sporting-life-racing?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sporting-life-horse-racing-racecards-d65c680d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UVNv-Wctx0QkxwuHNWLRT

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability sporting-life-horse-racing-racecards-d65c680d
```

Example prompt: Pull up today's horse racing racecard for Newmarket — I want to see all the races, runners, jockeys, trainers, current odds, and what the going is like.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured UK, Irish, or international horse racing racecard data including runners, jockeys, trainers, and live odds sourced from Sporting Life. Ideal for pre-race research, building betting tools, or monitoring race-day conditions at specific courses. Prefer over generic web scraping when you need reliably parsed, structured racing data without HTML extraction overhead.

## Known failure modes

- No meetings available if racing is not scheduled for the day
- Invalid course name returns an empty or filtered result set
- Invalid country code may return no results or all meetings
- Sporting Life source data temporarily unavailable causing upstream errors
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 micropayment not completed

## How this service works

Horse racing racecards from Sporting Life (UK & Ireland, plus international meetings): today's meetings with course, country, going, surface and weather, and each race's time, name, class, age band, distance, runner count, stage (declared, off, result) and winning time; plus the next ten races with runners (horse, age, form, jockey, trainer, draw, official rating, current and earlier odds) and the betting forecast.

## Output

Returns today's race meetings with course, country, going, surface, and weather details; each race's time, name, class, age band, distance, runner count, and stage (declared, off, or result) including winning time where available; plus the next ten upcoming races with full runner details — horse name, age, recent form, jockey, trainer, draw, official rating, current and earlier odds — and the betting forecast.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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