By going

GET /v1/courses/{course_id}/going-record

How the ground changes what wins.

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Complete + Analyst 2017 → upcoming

Send your key in the X-API-Key header, or as ?key= if your tool cannot set one. A date outside your plan's window returns 403 outside_window naming the window, never an empty array.

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
course_id	path	string	yes	Opaque course identifier.
run_type	query	string	no	Restrict to Flat, Hurdle, Chase or NH Flat.

Request

curl https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/courses/cr_JSRC8Z/going-record \
  -H "X-API-Key: $AHR_KEY"

$ch = curl_init('https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/courses/cr_JSRC8Z/going-record');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ['X-API-Key: ' . getenv('AHR_KEY')],
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true)['data'];

const res = await fetch(
  'https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/courses/cr_JSRC8Z/going-record',
  { headers: { 'X-API-Key': process.env.AHR_KEY } }
);
const { meta, data } = await res.json();

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.apihorseracing.com/v1/courses/cr_JSRC8Z/going-record",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["AHR_KEY"]},
).json()

Response

200 OK application/json harvested 8 days ago

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "a1bf9bcb608109c7",
        "data_as_of": "2026-09-12T05:10:27+00:00",
        "plan": "analyst",
        "window": "2017 → upcoming",
        "count": 30
    },
    "data": {
        "course_id": "cr_JSRC8Z",
        "course": "Fontwell",
        "window": {
            "from": null,
            "to": null,
            "note": "The whole archive. Your plan sets no date limit."
        },
        "overall": {
            "runs": 10351,
            "priced": 10305,
            "first": 1316,
            "second": 1312,
            "third": 1270,
            "fourth": 1145,
            "win_pct": 0.1271,
            "top3_pct": 0.3766,
            "expected_wins": 1315,
            "a_e": 1.001,
            "a_e_range": [
                0.947,
                1.055
            ],
            "a_e_beats_market": false,
            "significant": false,
            "low_sample": false,
            "pl_1pt": -2745.33,
            "roi_pct": -26.64
        },
        "by": "going",
        "going": [
            {
                "going": "Good",
                "runs": 1942,
                "priced": 1942,
                "first": 252,
                "second": 252,
                "third": 246,
                "fourth": 227,
                "win_pct": 0.1298,
                "top3_pct": 0.3862,
                "expected_wins": 252,
                "a_e": 1,
                "a_e_range": [
                    0.877,
                    1.123
                ],
                "a_e_beats_market": false,
                "significant": false,
                "low_sample": false,
                "pl_1pt": -564.37,
                "roi_pct": -29.06
            },
            {
                "going": "Good (Good to Soft in places)",
                "runs": 1199,
                "priced": 1199,
                "first": 149,
                "second": 149,
                "third": 147,
                "fourth": 139,
                "win_pct": 0.1243,
                "top3_pct": 0.3711,
                "expected_wins": 149,
                "a_e": 1,
                "a_e_range": [
                    0.839,
                    1.161
                ],
                "a_e_beats_market": false,
                "significant": false,
                "low_sample": false,
                "pl_1pt": -382.25,
                "roi_pct": -31.88
            },
            "… 28 more"
        ]
    }
}

A real response from /v1/courses/cr_JSRC8Z/going-record, captured by calling the live API rather than written by hand.

Response fields

Each field is described once and rendered on every endpoint that returns it, so the wording cannot drift between pages.

Field	Type	What it is
course_id	string	Opaque course identifier.
course	string	Course name.
window	string	How far back and forward that plan can read.
runs	integer	Rides in the slice, priced or not.
priced	integer	Rides carrying a starting price. A/E and the profit figures use these; runs is the wider count.
first	integer	Wins.
second	integer	Seconds. Positions are returned separately so you apply your own place terms.
third	integer	Thirds.
fourth	integer	Fourths.
win_pct	number	Wins over runs. The number everyone quotes and the one that tells you least.
top3_pct	number	First, second or third over runs. Not a place strike rate; place terms vary.
expected_wins	number	Wins the market implied, summed over the slice.
a_e	number	Actual wins over expected. Above 1.00 means winning more often than the prices said.
a_e_range	array	Ninety five percent interval on A/E. If it spans 1.00 the figure is not evidence of anything.
a_e_beats_market	boolean	True only where the whole interval sits above 1.00.
significant	boolean	Whether the interval excludes 1.00 in either direction.
low_sample	boolean	Fewer than five expected wins. Treat A/E as noise.
pl_1pt	number	One point on every runner, settled at starting price.
roi_pct	number	Level stakes return. Backing everything loses more than the book margin, because equal stakes overweight the longshots.
going	string	Ground description at the off.

Errors this endpoint returns

Code	Status	When
unauthorized	401	No key, or one we do not recognise. Check the header name and that the key has not been rotated from your account page.
upgrade_required	403	The endpoint returns computed statistics and your plan does not include them. The body names every plan that does reach it, so you never have to look it up.
not_found	404	The identifier is well formed but nothing has it. Distinct from invalid_id, which means the identifier itself is wrong.
invalid_id	422	The prefix does not match the kind of thing the path expects, or the identifier is malformed. A horse id passed where a race is wanted lands here rather than returning the wrong race.
invalid_param	422	A date that is not YYYY-MM-DD, a by= dimension we do not have, or a cursor that did not come from us. The message names the parameter.
rate_limited	429	Past your per-minute rate. Retry-After is set, and X-RateLimit-Remaining tells you where you stand on every successful response too.
server_error	500	Ours, not yours. Every response carries a request_id; quote it and we can find the exact request.

Run it live

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Your API key

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course_id

run_type optional

What this is for

How the ground changes what wins here: field sizes, favourite performance, casualty rates and the standard statistics block, per going.

Ground is the biggest single variable in British and Irish racing and one of the least consistently described. Goings are returned exactly as published, including their capitalisation, because that is what you have to match on. "Good To Soft" and "Good to Soft" may both appear in the archive, and pretending otherwise would hide a real problem.

The favourite strike rate per going is the most immediately useful row. Softer ground tends to produce more upsets, and how much more varies by track in ways the market does not always fully price.

Common uses

Adjusting expectations on the day

The going is known before the card. This says what that usually means here.

Finding a track that changes character

Some courses ride completely differently in the wet. The field size and casualty columns show it before the statistics do.

Notes

Going is recorded on the meeting rather than per race, so it is the going as published for the card. It can change during a day and this will not reflect that.