{"id":6881,"date":"2020-05-29T12:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T12:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6881"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:50:40","slug":"betfair-japan-australia-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/betfair-japan-australia-horse-racing","title":{"rendered":"Betfair Australia pulls Japan racing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Betfair has pulled horse racing in Japan from its betting platform in Australia after pressure from the country’s racing body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Australia.- Betfair has pulled horse racing in Japan from its betting platform in Australia after pressure from the country’s racing body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betfair added Japanese racing markets in March, but almost three months later has chosen to comply with the Japan Racing Association’s (JRA) request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, Betfair said: “We launched Japanese racing on the exchange in March 2020 in order to continue meeting the needs and interests of our customers and punters during what was a time of unprecedented uncertainty for racing, and we know many punters love the product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Unfortunately, the HKJC and JRA still have a view that a betting exchange poses risk to the integrity of a race given \u201ca customer can back a horse to lose”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Given the disruption, this would pose to Australian punters and Australian racing bodies alike, as fans of racing, we have ceased offering markets on the exchange.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betfair also announced earlier this week that it was raising its commission on NRL winnings in Australia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betfair has pulled horse racing in Japan from its betting platform in Australia after pressure from the country’s racing body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Betfair has ceased offering Japanese horse racing markets on its Australian betting exchange platform, succumbing to pressure from the Japan Racing Association (JRA) and integrity concerns articulated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC). This decision, made three months post-launch, underscores the complex interplay of cross-jurisdictional regulatory influence and the perceived integrity risks associated with exchange betting models, particularly \"backing to lose\" functionalities.","focusai_entities":"Betfair, Japan Racing Association, Hong Kong Jockey Club","focusai_location":"Australia, Japan, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.8), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"JRA Regulatory Leverage","query":"What specific governance frameworks or bilateral agreements empower the Japan Racing Association to exert such direct influence over an Australian-licensed operator's market offerings?"},{"label":"Exchange Integrity Risk","query":"How do \"back to lose\" functionalities in betting exchanges specifically compromise race integrity from the perspective of racing bodies like the JRA and HKJC, and what are the quantifiable risks to the sport?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,161,155],"tags":[289,4256,470],"class_list":["post-6881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-daily-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-australia","tag-horse-racing","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20976,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6881\/revisions\/20976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}