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IS THE COUCH OUR NEW DAY AT THE RACES?
July 4, 2021 4:30 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
In 1999 a mob called
Teletrack Corporate Racing attempted to launch a project that at the time was an affront to our glorious sport but in retrospect seems a vision of the future.
It was reported at the time that: “Construction on what’s being billed as the world’s first horseracing track dedicated entirely to online punters is expected to start in South Australia within the next two months.”
“The
South Australian Government has become the first in the Southern Hemisphere to give the go-ahead to Teletrack Corporate Racing. It’s an as yet untested concept where horses race at night on a two-kilometre-long straight-line racetrack. What’s most unusual is that there won’t be any spectators at all at the track. The audience will be in Asia and Europe, watching and betting on the races through the Internet.”