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12/03/2008, 9:18 le rouge Joined on 15/11/2005 Posts 63 Re: Cheltenham Festival  dryliner wrote: you could watch it liva and have a bet at pmu cafe or log on to www.ladbrokes.co.uk bet a fiver a race and you can see all races live on your computer or www.racingpost.co.uk both are good sites Tried betting a fiver on the first race yesterday with Skybet and it did the countdown to the race and looked like it would show me the race, then when the count reached 0 it came up with a message saying 'for contractual reasons we cannot ....blah blah blah...outside the UK'. The same happened on Racing Post for the second race at which point I gave up. In the end I watched a replay of each race which became available between 30 and 60 mins after each race had finished. If you can avoid the heasdlines on the home page and go straight to the 'race replay page' then to all intents and purposes it is 'live' I suppose. It was a good compromise. Only had 1 winner but it was fun. Shame today is off due to the bad weather as was all lined up!!!       Now in France!!    Report

12/03/2008, 9:19 le rouge Joined on 15/11/2005 Posts 63 Re: Cheltenham Festival  dryliner wrote: you could watch it liva and have a bet at pmu cafe or log on to www.ladbrokes.co.uk bet a fiver a race and you can see all races live on your computer or www.racingpost.co.uk both are good sites Tried betting a fiver on the first race yesterday with Skybet and it did the countdown to the race and looked like it would show me the race, then when the count reached 0 it came up with a message saying 'for contractual reasons we cannot ....blah blah blah...outside the UK'. The same happened on Racing Post for the second race at which point I gave up. In the end I watched a replay of each race which became available between 30 and 60 mins after each race had finished. If you can avoid the heasdlines on the home page and go straight to the 'race replay page' then to all intents and purposes it is 'live' I suppose. It was a good compromise. Only had 1 winner but it was fun. Shame today is off due to the bad weather as was all lined up!!!       Now in France!!    Report

14/03/2008, 16:34 cooperlola Joined on 05/05/2006 72 - Sarthe - home of les 24 heures du Mans Posts 6,440 Re: Cheltenham Festival So, come on, own up now.  Who backed Denman?  ... and the little bit of each way I had on Neptune Collanges didn't go amiss either. for Mr Nichols, without whom I wouldn't be eating a free dinner tonight. Healthcare Issues Site    Report

14/03/2008, 18:33 Hoddy Joined on 23/08/2004 .....Forum Moderator..... NW Leics/SE Dordogne Posts 2,192 Re: Cheltenham Festival I didn't back Denman I'm afraid. I'm going to Uttoxeter tomorrow though and I expect my favourite bookie will be treating his wife to dinner tomorrow night. Hoddy    Report

16/03/2008, 14:49 le rouge Joined on 15/11/2005 Posts 63 Re: Cheltenham Festival Just for the record and regarding my earlier post saying that on Racing Post and Skybet  I couldnt get live coverage. The theory is that through Skybet if you bet a fiver on a race you can then watch it live. However when I tried it, it came up with a message about 'contractual reasons'. I decided to persevere but the next time I tried it said the race had started (i knew it hadnt as was listening to Festival radio coverage at the same time). I tried changing the PC clock to GMT but that didnt make any difference. I gave up until the Gold Cup then decided to change the clock manually back one hour rather than use the Control Panel GMT setting and low and behold up came the live coverage. So in the future if I have a fiver on a race I must reset my clock back 1 hour it seems. Roll on the National! .....and the postscript is that I backed Kauto Star anyway!       Now in France!!    Report

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