Odds Park changes service content for Hokkaido and Nankai horse racing tickets

Odds Park, the public racing betting site operated by Odds Park Corp. under SoftBank group company SB Players, changed its service content in April 2022, according to the company's Japanese Wikipedia entry¹. From that month, direct members can no longer buy Hokkaido Racing and Nankai public horse racing tickets, except for dirt grade races, which remain available to city bank members only¹.

Until March 2022, Hokkaido Racing tickets were sold for all races to city bank members and to direct members registered with PayPay Bank. That arrangement ended with the April 2022 change¹. As of April 2022, direct members can buy tickets for all races from the eight other organizers and ten racecourses outside Hokkaido Racing and the four Nankai tracks, while Nankai and Hokkaido bets are limited to dirt grade races and to city bank members¹.

Odds Park is the general public racing service site of Odds Park Corp., a subsidiary of SB Players, which belongs to the SoftBank group¹. Its president and CEO is Toshikazu Takamatsu¹. Its stated business is the sale of public racing betting tickets, payouts and the delivery of refunds¹.

The site sells win betting tickets for all races at eight organizers and ten racecourses excluding Hokkaido Racing and the four Nankai tracks, winner tickets for keirin velodromes except Chiba, and winning-vehicle tickets for all auto race tracks. As of 2026 it is the only service where horse racing, keirin and auto racing can be bought in one place¹.

Its Odds Park LOTO multi-race products include Select 7 and Random 7, which require predicting the winners of seven consecutive races counting back from the last race of the day. Select 7 is sold in 100 yen units with the selection chosen by the buyer; Random 7 is sold in 200 yen units with selections assigned randomly by computer.

Select 5 and Motoloto mini require the winners of five consecutive races, sold in 100 yen units, with a payout ceiling of 200 million yen for horse racing and 600 million yen for keirin and Motoloto mini. Motoloto BIG requires the first and second place finishers, in order, of four consecutive races, sold in 100 yen units with computer-assigned selections that cannot be checked before purchase, and a payout ceiling of 600 million yen¹.

What it means for players

For anyone betting on Japanese public racing through Odds Park, the practical effect of the April 2022 change falls on account type. Direct members lost access to Hokkaido Racing and Nankai race tickets, apart from dirt grade races, which are open to city bank members only¹. City bank members retain access to those dirt grade races¹. The change did not affect the other eight organizers and ten racecourses listed as available to direct members¹.

Odds Park's multi-race LOTO products, including Select 7, Random 7, Select 5 and Motoloto BIG, are described separately from the race-by-race ticket sales, and the entry does not state that the April 2022 change altered them¹. Payout ceilings and unit sizes for those products are as listed above¹.

What happens next

The entry records no further scheduled change to Odds Park's service content beyond the April 2022 revision¹. It notes that the Pay-easy-based "Sugukaeru" membership, started in October 2012, was abolished at the end of March 2023¹.