I assumed that they schedule harness and gallops independently?Aarondewit wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:29 am3,850m flat race at MV is something we don't see in Australia very often. Is that 10 laps of the goat track?
As an aside... why would the schdule Newcastle 3 mins after this race's schduled start time? Madness.
Australian racing
In Australia there's two primary channels owned by TAB: Sky Racing 1 & 2. Whilst thoroughbreds are generally favoured on Sky 1, they do run plenty of harness racing and greyhound meetings on the channel, too.
For tonight, SKY 1 is taking Mildura and Newcastle harness, and Sky 2 is taking Albury and Hobart harness.
Sky 2 on busy nights has all sorts of racing from around the world. This means if a race is a couple of minutes late on Sky 1, unless it's a metro thoroughbred race, it ends up on Sky 2.. and often a split screen (really a 1/4 screen) where you can see nothing. Terrible for an in-play trader.
Things never used to be so bad before Sky decided they needed to take images from Japan, Sweden, Germany and gods knows where else, alongside doggy races from Humpty-doo.
For tonight, SKY 1 is taking Mildura and Newcastle harness, and Sky 2 is taking Albury and Hobart harness.
Sky 2 on busy nights has all sorts of racing from around the world. This means if a race is a couple of minutes late on Sky 1, unless it's a metro thoroughbred race, it ends up on Sky 2.. and often a split screen (really a 1/4 screen) where you can see nothing. Terrible for an in-play trader.
Things never used to be so bad before Sky decided they needed to take images from Japan, Sweden, Germany and gods knows where else, alongside doggy races from Humpty-doo.
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What's on 'sky thoroughbred'?Aarondewit wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:57 amIn Australia there's two primary channels owned by TAB: Sky Racing 1 & 2. Whilst thoroughbreds are generally favoured on Sky 1, they do run plenty of harness racing and greyhound meetings on the channel, too.
For tonight, SKY 1 is taking Mildura and Newcastle harness, and Sky 2 is taking Albury and Hobart harness.
Sky 2 on busy nights has all sorts of racing from around the world. This means if a race is a couple of minutes late on Sky 1, unless it's a metro thoroughbred race, it ends up on Sky 2.. and often a split screen (really a 1/4 screen) where you can see nothing. Terrible for an in-play trader.
Things never used to be so bad before Sky decided they needed to take images from Japan, Sweden, Germany and gods knows where else, alongside doggy races from Humpty-doo.
I think Humpty-doo has egg racesAarondewit wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 7:57 amIn Australia there's two primary channels owned by TAB: Sky Racing 1 & 2. Whilst thoroughbreds are generally favoured on Sky 1, they do run plenty of harness racing and greyhound meetings on the channel, too.
For tonight, SKY 1 is taking Mildura and Newcastle harness, and Sky 2 is taking Albury and Hobart harness.
Sky 2 on busy nights has all sorts of racing from around the world. This means if a race is a couple of minutes late on Sky 1, unless it's a metro thoroughbred race, it ends up on Sky 2.. and often a split screen (really a 1/4 screen) where you can see nothing. Terrible for an in-play trader.
Things never used to be so bad before Sky decided they needed to take images from Japan, Sweden, Germany and gods knows where else, alongside doggy races from Humpty-doo.
There have been a number of arrests in the last couple of years for race fixing, it's colloquially known as 'cheats in seats'. It's been cleaned up a bit but I'm quite sure there is plenty of dodgy stuff still going on.
