Irish Racing Coverage

will ring them once the Dublin festival is over
if they give me that offer I will take it

jonnybravo wrote: »

Anyone try the Sky Bet offer and how did it go?

i got it going, but had to ring racingtv and skybet to get it all sorted.


Great value 6 months at the height of the season for free. And i wanted a skybet account anyway so all good..


Have to say i love the HD converage.

cgeaney wrote: »

I was just trying to cancel my subscription on racingTv. They don't allow you to do this online and you have to phone a number. There is a separate number for cancellations. However i have been waiting for long periods to speak to someone and my email to them has not been answered promptly. be very careful signing up with these guys as they make it very hard to stop.

I was 42 minutes on hold yesterday

FORTY TWO!

Sultan of Bling wrote: »

AFAIK there is no cancellation process with the sky bet offer. You are just cut off after the 6 months.

Not sure about that, i got a bill that will charge a full year after 6 months. Obv ill be cancelling, but id be careful.

Lou 123 wrote: »

This is the title of the first race at Dundalk tonight - "RacingTV #12.00 Offer Starts Tomorrow Handicap of €12,500.00" - looks like the same deal as the Black Friday one is on offer again.

I might try and get it

12e a month is still 12e too much.

Surely most lads are working 5 days a week. How often do you be at home (especially those with a young family) and have the time on a Saturday & Sunday to sit down to watch (what is mostly muck) racing to make that 12e worthwhile.

All the decent races are covered free to air on a Saturday, as are the bigger festivals. I can only speak for myself, but im sure plenty of folk are in the same boat as me. I dont see the point anyway!

droidman123 wrote: »

I find when you stick with terrestial tv you tend to limit your selections to those races,i have racing tv and atr so i have a wider spectrum when selecting my bets as i know i am going to see every race.

Yeah I get that. But you can watch it online once you place a bet, and that's what I tend to do. But I don't bet that often anyway, mainly cos I don't have the time. Probably not a bad thing

No offence to Kate H but she is very very poor as a presenter

RivetingRoger wrote: »

No offence to Kate H but she is very very poor as a presenter

Agree but i'm biased so lets ask Philippa cooper...

A lot of fans not impressed with Racing TVs coverage of the racing at Gowran on Saturday.

Some disaster of a decision.

Nail on the head.

onlyonpaper wrote: »

Anyone see any offers recently for Rtv Irish coverage. With flat racing starting again at end month I thought there may be some fresh offers

Thought I saw €15 per month offer in the rp during this week.

piplip87 wrote: »

TV3 or Virgin or whatever there called have really made a balls of Cheltenham. RTEs coverage can leave a lot to be desired but really miss the Irish perspective during this week. ITV racing focus on the British horses and rightfully so but it wouldn't hurt for TV3 to send a few lads over instead of the ITV crap.

Ted Walsh alone is worth it. The man has forgotten more than any of us will ever know about racing

ITV Racing coverage is pathetic,utter garbage.Give me RTE anytime.

I won't hear a bad word about Andy Mac, lovely fella!!

RacingUK coverage an absolute disgrace again yesterday.

Instead of showing the Group 2 Minstrel Stakes at the Curragh yesterday, they showed a poor novice handicap chase in England instead.

I hope HRI are proud of themselves.

I decided to go to the races at The Curragh yesterday evening, Friday 23rd August.
The first race was at 17:10 so I left south Dublin at 15:45, 1 hour and 25 minutes before race time. Google maps shows the fastest route as 57 kms, time 45 minutes.
I arrived at The Curragh just after 18:00, a journey time of 2:15. The reason was an accident on the M50 at Finglas, and then a three car shunt on the N7 near the Dublin/Kildare border.
I missed the first two races and arrived as the field for the third pace was leaving the paddock to go to post.
Putting on the races at traffic rush hour can result in delays to spectators.

The “crowd” at The Curragh was about 500 people.
Before one race I was at the rail near the finishing post, turned around and started to count the crowd in the stand.
I got to 120 for the left half of the stand (incl people at tables), the race started, the rest of the stand had about 180, a total in the stand for the race of 300.
Imagine attempting to count a crowd at a racecourse! It is easy at The Curragh. :pac:

Walking to the car park before the last race (to avoid the crowd :rolleyes:) I bought two Toblerone and the woman said “There is no one in there, the races start at 5 o'clock and people would be at work“.

The television rights to Irish racing were sold a while back in a controversial deal.
Now we have the Irish Derby at 17:20 in the evening, and four race meetings at The Curragh in August on Friday nights starting at 17:10.
I am a little slow. The idea is forming in my head that he not only sold the TV pictures, he also the Irish race programme to the TV companies.
Four race meetings on Friday evenings must be for a foreign TV (betting) audience.
Do the TV companies decide when the races are run. Are the races run at times to suit TV viewers in other countries, ignoring the Irish race-going public.
It is a bit like the English soccer Premier League. The event is at the time the TV company dictates.
Events are spread throughout the week to increase the online betting take.

To attend four August evening meeting at The Curragh if employed you would need to take four half days from your annual leave.
Other than that the attendance must be pensioners (me), the unemployed (very few in a booming economy), a student with a car, a housewife/househusband with a car and no dependants, tourists (are there any tourist attractions/beaches near The Curragh?).

All the race meeting last night was missing was the tumbleweed.

IAMAMORON wrote: »

It is appalling that there is no Irish race meeting at the Curragh today to enable the fat cats of the HRI take a deal from UK television execs to have a Friday night race meeting that no one attends. What a shambles.

I believe the lack of Sunday racing today is the agreement with trainers/stable staff that they would have more free Sundays throughout the summer months so staff could have holidays and the staff shortages that trainers are having.

Nothing to do with money but manpower I believe and will be interesting to know if the 2020 fixtures will have much changes on this when they come out in a couple of weeks.

onlyonpaper wrote: »

Assume this was literally a one day offer. Went into their site and it’s still full price

Yeah . It popped up on my app . Only yesterday. It’ll defo be back again . Worth it for nh season

abarkie wrote: »

Yes checked at 10pm on Friday and had to add Sky viewing card number by 23.59

4.8E not good enough !