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Racing Post is a British daily horse racing, greyhound racing, and sports betting publisher published in print and digital formats. It is printed in tabloid format from Monday to Sunday. As of December 2008 [update] , it has an average daily circulation of 60,629 copies.
Racing TV (formerly Racing UK) is a British television channel with 34 racecourses as shareholders and fixtures from 61 racecourses broadcast live on its output. Racing TV is one of the two major UK horse racing television channels, the other being Sky Sports Racing. The station is dedicated to horse racing broadcasting over 70% of all live ...
Saturday racing and key midweek festival meetings are also broadcast on terrestrial television by ITV. The channel broadcasts a Saturday afternoon programme of live racing, usually between 13:30 and 16:00, and an hour-long weekly magazine show on Saturday mornings.
The service supplied more than 1,200 UK horse race meetings per year, 1,500 greyhound meetings, 300 Irish and 300 South African horse race meetings and, as a response to the introduction of the National Lottery, a range of numbers betting products, including virtual horse and greyhound racing.
Park Top (May 1964 – 1989) was a top-class British racehorse. She had an unfashionable pedigree, cost only 500 guineas as a yearling and did not run as a two-year-old. Her Grand-dam Oola Hills was the dam of Pappa Fourway, but unlike him, Park Top was at her best over middle distances.
1 January – Channel 4 takes over as the exclusive terrestrial TV home of all horse racing in the UK. [15] The BBC had scaled back its horse racing in recent years, gradually losing more and more events to Channel 4. Consequently, races such as The Grand National are shown on Channel 4 for the first time. 2014. No events. 2015. No events. 2016
Sky Sports Racing (formerly At The Races) is a British pay television channel devoted primarily to horse racing. The channel is operated by ATTHERACES Limited, a joint venture between Sky Group, Arena Racing Company and various racecourses. The channel broadcasts coverage of domestic, European and international horse racing events.
Hunt races took place in the middle of October for two days. The Hoo Racecourse [90] Hertfordshire: England: 1821: not known: Racing, mainly hunter chases, took place at the end of April and for a short time in the 1820s and 1830s the course was very fashionable: Kingston Racecourse [93] Herefordshire: England: not known: not known