Meeting

Object type

A race meeting — a series of races held at one course on one date. The root aggregate for the racing-data hierarchy. A course may host more than one meeting on the same date (e.g. an evening fixture in addition to the afternoon one); these are separate Meeting rows sharing course and meetingDate. Multi-day festivals (Cheltenham, Royal Ascot) are modelled as one Meeting per day, not a single multi-day entity.

Fields

Field	Args	Type	Description
id	—	ID! required	Stable Podium identifier (UUID).
meetingDate	—	Date! required	Local date the meeting runs on, in the course’s time zone (ISO YYYY-MM-DD).
meetingType	—	MeetingType! required	—
status	—	MeetingStatus! required	—
name	—	String	Optional display name for the meeting (e.g. a festival day’s branded name). Null for most fixtures.
countryCode	—	String! required	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code (GB, IE, FR, …). Convenience field mirroring course.countryCode.
conditions	—	MeetingConditions	Current ground/weather conditions reported for the meeting. Null until any conditions data has landed.
abandonedReason	—	String	Operator-supplied reason if the meeting has been abandoned. Null otherwise.
abandonedAt	—	DateTime	Timestamp the meeting was abandoned. Null otherwise.
course	—	Course! required	The course (venue) hosting the meeting.
competition	—	Competition	Competition / series this meeting belongs to, if any (e.g. a championship).
races	—	[Race!]! required	Races on the card, ordered by raceNumber. The CARD — reconciliation slots (raceNumber >= 1000) are not on it and are never returned here. See Race.raceNumber for what those are and which routes do reach them. Podium’s own operators list them through Meeting.reconciliationSlots, which is internal-tier: if that field is not in your schema, this paragraph is telling you the rows exist, not offering you a way to read them.
raceCount	—	Int	Number of races on the card. Useful when you want the count without fetching the races list. Counts exactly what races returns, so reconciliation slots (raceNumber >= 1000) are excluded — see Race.raceNumber.
televised	—	Boolean! required	True when the meeting is scheduled to be televised. Operator-set (not mastered by feed data).
broadcasters	—	[Broadcaster!]! required	Broadcasters (TV channels) that broadcast this meeting, ordered by name.
version	—	Int! required	Optimistic-locking version counter — increments on every write.
createdAt	—	DateTime! required	—
updatedAt	—	DateTime! required	—
source	—	String! required	Origin of the meeting row. 'manual' for meetings created via createMeeting; otherwise the ingestion provider tag (commonly 'ingested'). Drives destructive-action gating: only source = 'manual' meetings may be deleted; ingested meetings use abandonMeeting.