Just playing devils advocate and I know they are far from perfect, but they can't show two races at once and they would argue race club advertised race at 2.40PM so not their fault if race is at 2.44PM.Originally Posted by Messenger
Just playing devils advocate and I know they are far from perfect, but they can't show two races at once and they would argue race club advertised race at 2.40PM so not their fault if race is at 2.44PM.
midweek EVERY gallop race runs late, and sky channel encourage this by refusing to put running late gallop races over to sky 2 , eg a gallop race midweek normally 2 to 4 minutes late EVERY RACE, and trot and greyhound races which are on time are put to sky 2 for running on time, trots and dogs are going to have to find another channel and piss sky off and let them have there running late gallops to themselves
It is about time you had an avatar Breno
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http://www.harnesslink.com/News/Trac...e-what-we-have
An interesting observation from across the ditch. I'm sure many would agree!
I have been harping on about this for years but officialdom do not get it!
The following quote from the NZ article should have people questioning themselves
In our view the coverage is detrimental to the image it is portraying of harness racing and is a drag on the ability of the industry to even maintain let alone grow its market share of gambling industry.
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Hi Nathan,
That article is spot on. With the reference of switching from a harness race to a dog meeting in Mandurah those incidences are far too prevalent. Sky Racing 1 seems in my opinion, more intent on Greyhound Racing coverage than Harness Racing. There should be no reason for some greyhound race or thoroughbred race at the 'Back of Burke' be given precedence over a city harness race even if it is running late and usually for a legitimate reason but it happens far too often. Even greyhound racing interviews are getting equal coverage or in some cases more than harness racing. But the major problem here is that there is a far greater number of greyhound races in comparison to harness races it just drives me crazy tuning into Sky Racing to be confronted by a multitude of dog races. I suggest Sky Channel send them all to Sky Racing 2 and keep 1 for Harness and Thoroughbred racing.
G'day Nathan, I think the Majority would, Sky Racing's coverage has been ordinary at best and what's up with the picture Quality with the replays, Very poor. I think that once the current contract is up with Sky, We need to get them on board with far better coverage and Defintley get the split screen option or give them the flick and jump into bed with Trackside, It's a far better product and under the current scenario, We will never attract new people to the game and personally speaking, I would like to see the presentations on Television as well.
Watching one other night from NZ and when went to split screen couldn't see bottom one coz left all the stuff on screen re how long to next 4 races, etc. Saw some nice close ups of horse running 7th on top screen though!
Last night they had that screen cut in quarters thing. On left hand side at top had shot of 1 horse in parade ring Finland with odds underneah. On right hand side a race in progress and underneath a blue box with Racing in it. Only went to full screen for race in progress after half race over. Happen a lot recently...empty parade ring at dogs very frequent while race in progress.
Dunno how it all works but surely someone is watching what is being delivered on the screen and making sure right buttons pressed. Not just harness coverage either.
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As said dunno how works but maybe the bloke pushing the buttons needs some help as theres so much racing on. Believe Sky owned by Tabcorp so tipping that not going to happen. Cutting costs everywhere.
Probably not relevant to this but anyone else noticed they betting on races from Chile and Uruguay now? 8am start and guess they trying to catch punters on train to work in the morning. First of 4 from Chile just on. When looked $48 in win pool!! And quaddie pool a massive $1 !!! Surely thats costing them money and surely could be better invested elsewhere.
Sorry waffling on and probably on wrong thread but just notice something else.
Exacta pool on first $57.50. Thats AFTER Tabcorp takeout which believe 9.5%. No one got it. Jackpot to next. But jackpot only $52.42. So Tabcorp take another 9.5% out of pool they already taken money out of. Maybe they not loosing money on these races after all!!
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