 Logo used since 2020 | |
| Broadcast area | United Kingdom Ireland |
|---|---|
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ATTHERACES Limited (Sky Group/Arena Racing Company) |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 May 2002 (2002-05-01) (original) 11 June 2004 (2004-06-11) (relaunch) |
| Closed | 29 March 2004 (2004-03-29) (original) |
| Former names | At The Races (2002–2019) |
| Links | |
| Website | www.skysports.com/racing |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| At The Races Player | Watch live |
Sky Sports Racing (formerly At The Races) is a British pay television channel devoted primarily tohorse racing. The channel is operated by ATTHERACES Limited, a joint venture betweenSky Group,Arena Racing Company and various racecourses. They also operate the website attheraces.com. The channel broadcasts coverage of domestic, European and international horse racing events. The channel also broadcasts somegreyhound racing.
In January 2019, after previously operating autonomously from its sisters, the channel was re-launched as part of theSky Sports family of channels.
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It was originally launched on 1 May 2002 as Attheraces,[1] a partnership between the aforementioned entities plusChannel Four Television Corporation. It stopped broadcasting on 29 March 2004[2][3] due to financial problems but, after restructuring, was relaunched on 11 June 2004[4] without Channel Four.[citation needed]
On 30 April 2018, it was announced that At The Races would be relaunched as part of the largerSky Sports portfolio asSky Sports Racing by the end of the year. With the relaunch, the channel will have wider distribution within Sky Sports' packages, and availability on mobiles throughSky Go.[5] Within the same month, it was announced Chester Race Company had signed a 10-year deal to bring Live Racing fromBangor-On-Dee andChester to Sky Sports Racing from March 2019. In July 2018, it was also announced that beginning also in March 2019, it would also hold rights toAscot.[6] The rebranding occurred 1 January 2019[7][8] although the "At the Races" brand remains as the channel's parent company, while the website and app became the channel's digital partners.
The channel starts broadcasting at 9 am every day. In the mornings on the hour, Racing News is shown, followed by reviews of previous days racing. This format is repeated several times and updated with interviews. Presenters change over in the early afternoon and the lead presenter is joined by a guest to discuss the afternoon's racing. Until 1 January 2019, it was produced at theSIS broadcast facility inMilton Keynes. It is now produced from the newly automated Studio G atSky Campus in Isleworth.[9]
The partner racecourses are:
