chelm blv -1.3

theres plenty gone pop and struggling aint aint due to pic delays

The ATR tracks have reverted the format back to what it was a few months ago when it worked alright.

I'd say so

The recent “drones over racecourses” controversy has, in the view of a punters’ representative, called attention to a longstanding truth, that those who bet in-running are on anything but a level playing field. Martin Hughes, who serves on the Horserace Bettors Forum, believes racing is missing out on “a fantastic opportunity” by allowing that unfairness to persist and adds that 60% of respondents to an HBF survey, as yet unpublished, said they would be interested in betting during races if they could see the action at the same time as everyone else.

“I don’t think anything has really changed, with the drones,” Hughes told me this week. The reason for his interest in the HBF when it was set up in 2015 was that he had noticed a change in the in-running markets, and he has since gathered plenty of evidence of the cause of that change, people streaming pictures from the track to those who are prepared to pay.



“The drone is another way of people streaming from the track. I don’t have a massive issue with that on top because if you stop the drone, they’ll do it by some other method. They’re very clever, these people, they seem to come up with a new method every six months or so.”

Hughes has raised his concerns with various powerful people in racing. “They all say, ‘This is terrible,’ but then do nothing about it.” Experienced bettors are aware that their TV pictures can be as much as seven seconds behind the live action, depending on the channel, but Hughes worries that newcomers could lose their money before realising the disadvantage they’re up against.

“I just feel that racing is missing a trick by not having a faster picture service. That’s what I would love to see racing working towards. It’s perfectly capable of getting an in-running product out.” He says the footage available through at least one betting site is less than one second behind live, proving that such a service is achievable.


An evangelist for in-running betting, Hughes argues that a healthy in-play market also fosters pre-race betting, as punters like to establish positions from which to trade when the race starts. “My average bet used to be £20, before I started on in-running. I was just looking through my records on Saturday and, before racing had started, I’ve spent £800 with the bookmakers. Not on Betfair or anything like that, with the bookmakers.”

Currently, the unequal playing field stops racing from giving in-running betting any kind of promotional push, even though it would generate interest in the sport and provide income through the levy on betting profits. Hughes’s view is that fast pictures for all could be an enormous boon to racing and help to get the attention of a technologically savvy younger generation.


2019

ALL the tracks where Shafty steals most of his corn..

Wow, what impeccable timing for the finish to be blacked out and froze.
2 horses neck and neck 1/2 furlong out.

newcastle stuttery here

Wolves unplayable?

southwell terrible

anyone else having problems ?

pause stutter splutter man getting involved today...

thanks for the replies

Definitely worse than it's been lately without being disastrous. i didn't play the 5f race at Southwell though

Fontwell garbage.
Absolute shower

*sky for atr

definitely pablo, gradual deterioration over a few days

plumpton black screen just as the favourite is about to be pulled up...

corruption of the highest order imv...

of course nobody will do anything about it whatsoever...

Fine here?

that has cost me a few quid. was 1 sec from laying jolly and stopped when screen went dark.

The timing of the black screen then was incredible, just as the fav makes a very bad mistake and again when it is pulled up.

I've never been so sure that somebody is on the take.