Australian racing
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The dog of ry
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The Nock's off, can't see Geelong.... jam this, i'm off to the pub!
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The dog of ry
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Am I right in thinking, that as it stands right now, nobody offcourse can see Vic racing live? (excluding Internet feeds)I read a story saying it would still be beamed into Pubs & Clubs until the ch78 is up and running
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The dog of ry
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Ah ok. Terry Bailey is calling today, so I might just start flying into the 1.01 late... literally free money 
Naffman,
You're spot on - it's moving like treacle today - I've seen more money at a pauper's funeral.
You would thing that those people who are supposed to be managing racing in Victoria might have learnt the lessons from past debacles - every time some disruption like this occurs racing loses a few more participants. The staggering fact is that Victorian racing has what the modern marketing imposters would describe as "an excellent product". We have just witnessed the so-called Brisbane Carnival which had all the atmosphere of an embalming assistant's conference.
It might just be time for a racing commission in Victoria - it's the fifth largest employer in the state and the spring carnival is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Vic economy. I was involved in research into racing in Victoria in the 1970's and a racing commission was suggested then to loosen the grip of the landed gentry on the racing clubs. Now it might be needed to rid the industry of incompetent administrators (see TVN for an example) and the spivs and self propmoters.
Surely it has to get better than this!!
cheers
G66
You're spot on - it's moving like treacle today - I've seen more money at a pauper's funeral.
You would thing that those people who are supposed to be managing racing in Victoria might have learnt the lessons from past debacles - every time some disruption like this occurs racing loses a few more participants. The staggering fact is that Victorian racing has what the modern marketing imposters would describe as "an excellent product". We have just witnessed the so-called Brisbane Carnival which had all the atmosphere of an embalming assistant's conference.
It might just be time for a racing commission in Victoria - it's the fifth largest employer in the state and the spring carnival is worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Vic economy. I was involved in research into racing in Victoria in the 1970's and a racing commission was suggested then to loosen the grip of the landed gentry on the racing clubs. Now it might be needed to rid the industry of incompetent administrators (see TVN for an example) and the spivs and self propmoters.
Surely it has to get better than this!!
cheers
G66
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rinconpaul
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Not sure how the traders are getting a live (1 or 2 sec delay) vision anymore. The racing.com website they've put up to beam LIVE VIC racing has a delay of about a minute. Yep the race's nearly over by the time you see them jump on the screen. Now for someone to bet inplay there would be a huge advantage to be at the track theoretically. I compared turnover, whilst in play, between a VIC race and NSW race, and it was down markedly, but they're still betting inplay though. AM radio perhaps?
Crownbet are also offering it but I suspect the delay will be even worse than Racing.com.gazuty wrote:Saw a big advert in the paper. Vic racing free for Sportsbet customers.
There have always been a lot of radio players but I could never do that as I need to see the race unfold, especially with the below-par callers in this country.rinconpaul wrote:AM radio perhaps?
And it looks as though Rockhampton has been delayed by an hour...