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From 2012 to 2024 the race was sponsored by Betfair and known as the Betfair Hurdle. William Hill took over the sponsorship from the 2025 running. Two winners of the race – Persian War and Make a Stand – subsequently achieved victory in the following month's Champion Hurdle. Persian War holds the weight carrying record for the race when ...
The content of the present day Miller's Guide remains basically the same with results of nearly 300 Group and Listed Australian horse races in 744 pages, whereas originally it was only 80 pages and listed a mere dozen or so races and carried limited information on other sporting codes.
The first major race meetings with tote betting were the flat race meetings at Newmarket (July Course) and Carlisle on 2 July 1929. Under the Betting Levy Act 1961 the board was reconstituted as the Horserace Totalisator Board (the Tote), with responsibility for the redistribution of funds to racing transferred to the Horserace Betting Levy Board.
Behind the betting windows at Ascot racetrack, Australia February 1939 An automatic totalisator is a device to add up the bets in a pari-mutuel betting system. The whole of the pot (the stakes on all competitors) is divided pro rata to the stakes placed on the winning competitor, and those tickets are paid out.
Tote Sport Radio broadcasts were largely a relay of RSN Racing & Sport in Melbourne, although some syndicated programming was broadcast on the Launceston frequency. [1] Tote Sport Radio broadcast live commentary of thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing along with race form and betting information. Other sports were also covered in ...
Thoroughbred horse racing is a spectator sport in Australia, and gambling on horse races is a very popular pastime with A$14.3 billion wagered in 2009/10 [1] with bookmakers and the Totalisator Agency Board (TAB). The two forms of Thoroughbred horseracing in Australia are flat racing, and races over fences or hurdles in Victoria and South ...
For the 2023 edition the race was run as the Alder Hey Aintree Bowl as part of the 21st anniversary of the partnership between Aintree Racecourse and the Alder Hey Children's Charity. [1] The race was promoted to Grade 1 status in 2010. It is currently held on the opening day of the three-day Grand National meeting.
The live broadcasting of horse racing in the New Zealand dates back to the launch of a racing radio network in 1978. The station, originally known as Radio Pacific and later as bSport and LiveSport, became TAB Trackside Radio. [4] A racing television station launched in 1992, initially known as Action TV and later as Trackside, is now Trackside 1.