Irish Racing Coverage

The Tetrarch

This might need a thread of its own.

From The Irish Field 24th August 2019, page 3.
"Horse Racing Ireland will learn in the High Court on Wednesday what chance it has of recovering over Euro 500,000 it is owed by cash handling firm Senaca."
"The liquidator has found that Senaca owes Euro 2.5 million to 70 clients and there is just Euro 800,000 in company funds. Of the Euro 1.7 million shortfall, it's thought Irish racing accounts for Euro 750,000 in missing funds."

The racing shortfall is Tote takings, floats, gate receipts, cash takings at four HRI owned/associated tracks.

The Tetrarch

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/business/provisional-liquidator-concerned-over-deficit-in-client-monies-of-security-cash-in-transit-business-941527.html

abarkie

STB. wrote: »

4.8E not good enough !

Lol!

More than good enough for me, but not for a friend in the pub, who has Sky but likes watching the Irish racing especially on a Sunday

RivetingRoger

Expect another RTV deal in January
prob the 10pm for 12 months again

The Mig

Black Friday before that Roger

RivetingRoger

The Mig wrote: »

Black Friday before that Roger

My deal expires on Jan 1st
Will expect an offer to stay or they can feck off and I will cancel
After January I will just have to go to the pub
Altho, 90% of the time, if you threaten to leave, they....twist your arm

abarkie

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.

https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/friday-fixtures-to-be-reduced-at-the-curragh-next-year-after-poor-attendances/397409

Looks like someone noticed

marvin80

Looks like all the problems have been solved by a little bit of re-branding!

http://www.goracing.ie/

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"Speaking on the eve of the last of seven Friday fixtures at the Curragh, Keogh said:
"I haven't given up on the idea of Friday evening racing at the Curragh and,
if something is worth trying, it is worth trying more than once."

Or, not it isn't.
That horse finished down the field seven times.
I went to only one Friday, and have a season ticket.

abarkie

The Tetrarch wrote: »

"Speaking on the eve of the last of seven Friday fixtures at the Curragh, Keogh said:
"I haven't given up on the idea of Friday evening racing at the Curragh and,
if something is worth trying, it is worth trying more than once."

Or, not it isn't.
That horse finished down the field seven times.
I went to only one Friday, and have a season ticket.

It seems like maybe season ticket people are not the intended market

As he refers to Leopardstown, maybe they want to have a concert following racing, "attracting" the younger audience

Nothing like alienating your core customer, whilst chasing new ones

The Tetrarch

Newmarket nights



The Curragh nights are a little different.

marvin80

abarkie wrote: »

It seems like maybe season ticket people are not the intended market

As he refers to Leopardstown, maybe they want to have a concert following racing, "attracting" the younger audience

Nothing like alienating your core customer, whilst chasing new ones

As an aside I doubt concerts in the Curragh would be a massive crowd puller like Leopardstown.
The big advantage Leopardstown has is close proximity to Dublin city and good public transport to boot.

A massive amount of office workers etc. in Dublin go to Leopardstown for one of their Thursday nights racing/concerts. I can't see them trekking down to the Curragh.

The Curragh redevelopment has been a disaster - some waste of 80 million.

tryfix

Stuck on Racing TV this evening to see the Cambridgeshire from the Curragh, got a half screen shot of it while all the commentary was on the Hamilton race which was on the other half of the screen. When both races were finished ( with no commentary yet from the Curragh ) off they went replaying the Hamilton race again.

HRI have burned Irish Racing very badly with this shoddy TV deal.

abarkie

marvin80 wrote: »

As an aside I doubt concerts in the Curragh would be a massive crowd puller like Leopardstown.
The big advantage Leopardstown has is close proximity to Dublin city and good public transport to boot.

A massive amount of office workers etc. in Dublin go to Leopardstown for one of their Thursday nights racing/concerts. I can't see them trekking down to the Curragh.

The Curragh redevelopment has been a disaster - some waste of 80 million.

Another reason to bring back the rail station

Can always remember walking across the field after racing - or the offer of the shuttle bus (used to always make me chuckle at how many people used to wait for it)

abarkie

tryfix wrote: »

Stuck on Racing TV this evening to see the Cambridgeshire from the Curragh, got a half screen shot of it while all the commentary was on the Hamilton race which was on the other half of the screen. When both races were finished ( with no commentary yet from the Curragh ) off they went replaying the Hamilton race again.

HRI have burned Irish Racing very badly with this shoddy TV deal.

According to a poster on Betfair, the Cambridgeshire was 10 mins late off, hence the clash

famagusta

tryfix wrote:

Stuck on Racing TV this evening to see the Cambridgeshire from the Curragh, got a half screen shot of it while all the commentary was on the Hamilton race which was on the other half of the screen. When both races were finished ( with no commentary yet from the Curragh ) off they went replaying the Hamilton race again.

tryfix wrote:

HRI have burned Irish Racing very badly with this shoddy TV deal.

Ya same as that, disgraceful stuff as always, we are bottom of the pecking order

tryfix

abarkie wrote: »

According to a poster on Betfair, the Cambridgeshire was 10 mins late off, hence the clash

Yeah, that was fair enough. The split screen was par for the course in such a case, but the Cambridgeshire race had finished without commentary and then AFAIK there was no attempt made to skip back from the finished Hamilton race to show what had happened in the big betting event of that night's Curragh meeting.

Surely punters deserved a quick update on what had happened in the Cambridgeshire?

STB.

@Tryfix.


I was watching RTVi which is the commercial version of Racing TV and they did the same. A 100k Cambridge vs a handicap from Hamilton, with priority given to the latter and only the closing stages were covered from the Curragh. Regardless of the delay, priority should be given to the race of more stature and prize money.

Add to that the most grating voice you will ever hear in between. Whose idea was to let Alex Hammond do studio commentary. In between her constant giggling, her high pitched voice would do your head in.

Just as well I could switch off to the other feeds.

supremenovice

Leopardstown wont be happy with a replay for the All Ireland clashing with Champions day. I wonder do they have a contingency plan to move racing back a couple hours?

Motivator

supremenovice wrote: »

Leopardstown wont be happy with a replay for the All Ireland clashing with Champions day. I wonder do they have a contingency plan to move racing back a couple hours?

They’d need to move it forward if they are to move it at all. Moving it back is not an option as the last race is usually around 7pm. Anything past 7.15 or 7.20 in mid september is going to be run in near darkness. I presume the football is going to be rescheduled for a 5pm throw in on the Saturday evening?

In my opinion they shouldn’t move it at all. I’ll be going for the racing and I’ll be watching the match at Leopardstown. Granted I’m not from Dublin but Champions Weekend is a once a year day and it’s a great day out with a fantastic card at the best track in the country.

The Mig

They've moved the Saturday forward 2 hours 20 mins to avoid a clash with the replay. Also used the excuse of it being on live Japanese TV for Deirdre

1st race is 1:55pm instead of 4:15pm

The Tetrarch

This might be a controversial idea but perhaps they should set out the racing programme to suit the Irish racing public.

2ndcoming

Tbh 1.55 is a much more sensible time to start on a Saturday anyway...

jonnybravo

Anyone know of any offers on Racing TV or better off waiting and hoping for a Black Friday deal? €31 a month seems extreme.

Earendil

jonnybravo wrote: »

Anyone know of any offers on Racing TV or better off waiting and hoping for a Black Friday deal? €31 a month seems extreme.

https://www.racingtv.com/racingtvoffers/jumpsearlybird

abarkie

I would expect an offer at Cheltenham meeting and / or black Friday

jonnybravo

Just to let anyone know that is interested the €12 a month offer is back again for Racing TV till midnight tonight.

ASOT

RTV are putting on a dedicated feed for Irish racing on the 26th.

https://www.racingtv.com/news/fully-dedicated-irish-channel-to-be-available-from-racing-tv-on-boxing-day

BumperD

ASOT wrote: »

RTV are putting on a dedicated feed for Irish racing on the 26th.

https://www.racingtv.com/news/fully-dedicated-irish-channel-to-be-available-from-racing-tv-on-boxing-day

The fact they had to do this only after a protest tells you how much thought, scrutinizing and foresight went into that HRI decision on broadcasting rights. I’d say the decision went something like this MR A “ Let’s give the rights to RacingTV?”. Decision makers reply “ Sounds good. Approved”.

The Mig

The 2nd channel shouldn't be a once off thing. Should be available for all the big days going forward.

Earendil

The Mig wrote: »

The 2nd channel shouldn't be a once off thing. Should be available for all the big days going forward.

It's the only answer.

abarkie

Everybody got the free racing channel for the day showing the Irish racing?

Freesports

Ive an old (I mean ancient old) skybox using freeview. Cant tune it in. 422 is still blocked.

Any help?

paddy no 11

TheTorment wrote: »

Ive an old (I mean ancient old) skybox using freeview. Cant tune it in. 422 is still blocked.

Any help?

Ours is 430, try that

paddy no 11

paddy no 11 wrote: »

Ours is 430, try that

nope.

Thanks anyway

The Mig

abarkie wrote: »

Everybody got the free racing channel for the day showing the Irish racing?

Freesports

Yep. Delighted

paddy no 11

TheTorment wrote: »

nope.

Thanks anyway

435 freesports

paddy no 11

paddy no 11 wrote: »

435 freesports

nope

abarkie

In racing post,advert says 435 as per post above

abarkie

422 is UK

435 is ROI

caff

Not working on eir, freesports just showing a signal card for setanta ppv

abarkie

Sounds like you might need to rescan

caff

abarkie wrote: »

Sounds like you might need to rescan

No way to rescan on eir?