Watching Horse Racing Online

[stgeorge]

1) I saw a thread entitled 'Watch Racing UK online'. The link is broken, but it set me wondering about live racing. I find the best way is to use Betfair's viewer, which can be accessed direct from the betfair.com website race page. The key here is that while as always to watch races live at bookie sites you have to place a bet, you can do so very cheaply. Simply (using the API is best) select the place market near the race and you will usually find the favourite has only a one-penny spread. Bet £2 and lay £2 on it and you will end up with a position where you stand to lose two pence if it places but break even if it does not. Thusly you are watching the race with a maximum cost of only 2p. Sometimes you will miss by one point and have a 4p liability (oh no!) but on other occasions you will hit the same price both ways and not have any liability (but you will still be allowed to watch the race). 2) The Betfair coverage seems to be live, or very close. I note that the market suspends about when the horses go off on-screen, maybe only a second earlier. This potentially makes it more live than the three-plus second delay reported for TV coverage. Does anyone have more info on this?

[erhaab1965]

Re: Watching Horse Racing Online I do too if I don't want to have a bet but wish to watch it live. I lay a no hoper at 1.01 and then get to watch it for free. Think the delay is more like 20 seconds than 3 secs.