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If you have the TV set to Trackside 1 tomorrow at that time, you will be perplexed to see a direct clash between the fourth race from Randwick and the third race from Caulfield - and there's no point blaming Trackside for it.
Why?
Put simply, Racing Victoria is deciding to march to the beat of its own drum, dispensing with the 40-minute Saturday afternoon "wheel'' model which has been used by administrators on both sides of the Tasman Sea to create race schedules for the past 10 years or so.
Instead, Caulfield's meeting will be run with 30-minute intervals, as Racing Victoria experiments with the shorter timeframe.
This, of course, could not have been possible if Racing Victoria was still reliant on the pay-per-view channels in Australia, but that landscape changed last winter when it broke away from the Sky Channel structure to set up racing.com and its own broadcast racing operation.
... is not on our side
All Victorian racing is now available free-to-air to viewers throughout Victoria or on the industry body's website if punters prefer that option, meaning Racing Victoria no longer feels it is constrained by the 40-minute gaps which make a day at the races a touch tedious at times.
Fair play to Racing Victoria to a point - the resources and distribution channels are there - but where does that leave punters in Port Pirie, Pinjarra, Cairns, Broken Hill, Alexandra and Balclutha, who are watching on the pub screens wondering what on earth is going on?
The betting figures might well tell a story for Racing Victoria tomorrow and the experiment might be swiftly shelved.
Then again, with the power of its own channel, Racing Victoria might gallop off into the sunset with a bold new broadcasting strategy tucked under its arm.
Either way, racing fans in Otago and New Zealand are going to be directly affected by it.
Here, there and everywhere
Despite the abandonment of the Gore meeting yesterday, the amount of racing options around the lower South Island over the next few days is staggering.
Harness fans can tuck in to Winton today, Waikouaiti's annual cup meeting on Sunday and Wyndham on Monday as the New Zealand Racing Board makes the most of the "Mondayised'' Waitangi Day public holiday.
Of course, thoroughbred fans will already know about Champions Day at Wingatui, which has once again attracted bumper fields.
You could argue the numbers at Winton today are a touch light, but it's good to see the Waikouaiti nominations stack up, considering the option of a grass meeting at Rangiora on Monday for Canterbury trainers.
Lazy FiverMon Richie is every hope of continuing his winning run when he takes his place in race 5 at Waikouaiti on Sunday.
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