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You can watch today's racing action at @FlemingtonVRC LIVE & FREE on http://racing.com: http://bit.ly/LiveRacingPage

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About Live Race Streaming
Racing.com will be live streaming all Victorian and New South Wales racing from Thursday December 18 courtesy of an agreement struck with Telstra and TVN.

This will include all metropolitan and provincial races from both states.

Racing.com already features archive vision for Victorian racing, with full replays available 30 minutes after every race.
 

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Tbe stupid morons who run the racing industry do not realise what damage they are doing to their product. Racing should always be free and it should be on free to air digital channels so they take horse racing to the masses and they should give us decent vision not like the vision from the 1960s like is on TVN with graphics from 1920. People who have a half interest in horse racing will not pay. Another nail in the horse racing coffin
 
TVN looks likely to be on its last legs, with Racing NSW walking away from the troubled broadcaster, while Racing Victoria will continue to support TVN alone.

Why can't there be a national racing body that can control the totes, the carnivals, the scheduling of racing nationwide, and most importantly, control the TV rights instead of being split down the middle?

No wonder thoroughbred racing is a laughing stock right now-and it has nothing to do with the jockeys, trainers, owners and the punters.
 
There has always been a divide between Victorian and New South Wales horse racing. It's no surprise that NSW has broken away from Victoria and TVN.

The day of a national authority will come sooner than later.
 
yaco55 said:
There has always been a divide between Victorian and New South Wales horse racing. It's no surprise that NSW has broken away from Victoria and TVN.

The day of a national authority will come sooner than later.
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A national racing body would be headed up by a person appointed by the Federal Minister for Sport. There would be 8 representatives on the board-one from each state and territory. The board would be known as Racing Australia. RA would run all aspects of racing-the clubs, a national tote, the carnivals, the welfare of horses, trainers, owners and jockeys, control of TV (FTA and Pay), radio and digital rights to cover racing.
 
There is absolutely no chance of a national racing body being established when each racing body is overseen by the state governments. It makes too much sense to join together. Five years ago we were promised a combined NSW and Vic TAB pool, of course that hasn't happened. I shudder to think what would happen to Victorian vision if Sky Channel had control of it though. I cannot handle watching racing at the tab when they cut and chop between races. Major races are interrupted by crossing to New Zealand maidens where they broadcast about 200 meters then they dont even broadcast the placegetters and then going back to the initial race where half the action is missed. It is a disgrace. New Zealand whose racing is not what is was still have a much more professional racing channel than we do.
 
From a punting perspective a metro gallops race on a Saturday is just as important as a race at the Casino dogs. I watch Sky simply for the wall to wall racing and unless it's the Spring or Autumn carnival I couldn't give a toss between them and a maiden greyhound race. All I want is the vision of the race no matter where it is and none of the media either side

A combined national tote pool would be disastrous for the punter, I don't know why anyone would want it. All it does is eliminate competition and take away any edge for the punter
 
I'm the exact opposite.

Only care about Vic and NSW racing with the odd QLD meeting over the winter.

Give me a channel that focuses on just those two states with mounting yard and betting coverage and I'll be happy. Sadly we seem to have totally missed the boat and are going back down the wall-to-wall racing path.
 
Time for 4 separate Sky Racing Channels

Sky1 - Australian gallops only
Sky2 - Australian harness only
Sky3 - Australian greyhounds only
Sky4 - all overseas racing of all three codes

would mean an extra channel, and some extra cost for outlets to show them, but one of the only fair ways to do it. it would also allow dedicated shows devoted to each code on each channel and provide a much more comprehensive coverage, insight etc of the respective codes, without losing things such as preview shows to cover a NZ maiden.
 
TheJanuaryMan said:
Time for 4 separate Sky Racing Channels

Sky1 - Australian gallops only
Sky2 - Australian harness only
Sky3 - Australian greyhounds only
Sky4 - all overseas racing of all three codes

would mean an extra channel, and some extra cost for outlets to show them, but one of the only fair ways to do it. it would also allow dedicated shows devoted to each code on each channel and provide a much more comprehensive coverage, insight etc of the respective codes, without losing things such as preview shows to cover a NZ maiden.
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Saturdays would be exactly the same though with wall to wall Gallops races
 
Jugada said:
Saturdays would be exactly the same though with wall to wall Gallops races
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wouldn't be so bad in the morning, with no new Zealand to compete with - would allow them to do uninterrupted previews of Australian gallops, and would also allow better coverage later afternoon of Perth, Northern Territory (when on weekends)
 

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Jugada said:
A combined national tote pool would be disastrous for the punter, I don't know why anyone would want it. All it does is eliminate competition and take away any edge for the punter
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Totally disagree, there is competition with bookmakers and it would be larger pools where you could feel comfortable to put on a big bet and not affect the pools. Having said that, the politicians are idiots and will probably up the take when they would almost put Corporates out of business if they cut the take to 6 or 7 percent on the tote. Not sure if that would be financially viable but it would be worth a try.
 
HeathComeBack said:
Totally disagree, there is competition with bookmakers and it would be larger pools where you could feel comfortable to put on a big bet and not affect the pools. Having said that, the politicians are idiots and will probably up the take when they would almost put Corporates out of business if they cut the take to 6 or 7 percent on the tote. Not sure if that would be financially viable but it would be worth a try.
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And the bookies offer a best tote product. If they all just offered Super TAB odds now it wouldn't be at all enticing. It's only going to make any difference to the current setup if you are betting at least $5k and if you are betting that much I highly doubt you are betting into a tote pool with all the better options available. You can also just do that now if you wanted and spread your bets over the 3 totes

No chance they are ever cutting the take out to that
 
Jugada said:
And the bookies offer a best tote product. If they all just offered Super TAB odds now it wouldn't be at all enticing. It's only going to make any difference to the current setup if you are betting at least $5k and if you are betting that much I highly doubt you are betting into a tote pool with all the better options available. You can also just do that now if you wanted and spread your bets over the 3 totes

No chance they are ever cutting the take out to that
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The bookies offer a best tote product to those who cannot win. I know they are trying to implement laws to stop this but i do not know how it cannot be enforced. I am not saying i win but i am stuck with Betfair exchange and the tote cos i cannot get a decent bet on with the corporates and nor am i interested in supporting them with their policies
 
iluvparis said:
I'm the exact opposite.

Only care about Vic and NSW racing with the odd QLD meeting over the winter.

Give me a channel that focuses on just those two states with mounting yard and betting coverage and I'll be happy. Sadly we seem to have totally missed the boat and are going back down the wall-to-wall racing path.
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Agreed. The best day for following the races was a wednesday on tvn. 20 mins rotating coverage from each of Sandown and Canterbury (or wherever). Mounting yard, betting flucs, race, race replays, jockey interview. No cutting to bs provincial races like on a Saturday.
 
The racing.com streaming gives me what I want most days, NSW & Vic coverage & although I have a few bets in QLD & Perth, doesn't really fuss me not having that vision, although just a warning for those who choose to use the streaming, it does chew through bandwidth if left running.

For yonks the only reason I had Foxtel was for the Footy & Racing but with the recent rights carry on & the way the AFL is headed, decided * it & knocked Foxtel on the head before xmas.

& re the National Racing body, it is time this was addressed at the federal level & I think I heard a while back that that may be on the cards, there may be a summit coming up(?) & and unless a national body is forced upon the industry it will never happen.

It is a huge industry that for the most part is being mismanaged horribly by a bunch of egotistical shortsighted self-entitled clowns who seemed determined to drive it into the ground slowly but surely.
 
Just for me, once it's idle, I always have it close. Just to be sure.
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should be a free product, grow the industry. many sports have seen this occur with horse racing a case of people not able to go but may still want to watch it and have the occasional bet
 
Jugada said:
A combined national tote pool would be disastrous for the punter, I don't know why anyone would want it. All it does is eliminate competition and take away any edge for the punter
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Much like Sky holding the mortgage of racing broadcasts. No competition sucks.

I will miss TVN, especially on a Saturday. For the real racing enthusiasts i dont think you could beat it. There would be some Saturdays when i wasn't even having a bet but would watch TVN just because of their depth of coverage. I never did this with Sky, Channel 7 or 9.

Sky needs a change of format or another option for punters that purely like Melbourne/Sydney racing, anything is better than the crap they put up on Sky World currently, maybe something like Dean Lester and Mark Guest in Melbourne TVN style, hopefully the message gets through but without any competition I'm not going to hold my breath.
 
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So does that mean all we will be left with is Sky?

That is disastrous - I would rate Sky's presentation wall-2-wall racing style about 2 out of 10. TVN where an excellent 7.5-8.5

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