Robin Goodfellow’s Racing Tips: Best bets for Thursday, November 5
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Thursday's meetings at Sedgefield, Chelmsford City, Market Rasen, Newbury and Kempton.
Month: November 2020
Breeders’ Cup & Facebook’s Oculus to Provide Virtual Reality Broadcast
The Breeders’ Cup is collaborating with Facebook’s Oculus to produce a virtual reality (VR) broadcast of the 2020 World Championships, to be held this coming Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7, at Keeneland. Oculus, a leading VR platform, will give fans an immersive arena-like live viewing experience.
Available on the social viewing app Venues, the VR broadcast will bring the Breeders’ Cup experience right into homes, which is particularly applicable this year with the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the VR broadcast, Breeders’ Cup will use 80 cameras on site.
“With fans not allowed to attend this year’s World Championships, Venues presented the perfect opportunity to create a truly immersive live experience that they can enjoy from the comfort of their living rooms,” said Justin McDonald, Breeders’ Cup Senior Vice President, Marketing. “This broadcast completely reinvigorates the remote viewing experience and brings fans closer to the World Championships than ever before. We’re excited about the potential that this technology holds and hope that our fans find it as captivating as we do.”
Viewers can subscribe to the Oculus event pages for Future Stars Friday and Championship Saturday.
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Breeders’ Cup and FanDuel Host $1 Million Fantasy Contest
Officials at the Breeders’ Cup, in conjunction with FanDuel Group, announced Wednesday a $1-million fantasy contest, giving fans the chance to win $1 million by picking the finishing order of the GI FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile presented by the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund, to be held Saturday, Nov. 7. FanDuel is the official wagering partner of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.
The “Breeders’ Cup $1 Mil Perfect Finish Free Play” is live now on FanDuel.com and open until 3:15 p.m. ET Saturday. Players predict the full order of finish for each of the 14 entrants in the race and collect points for each horse whose finish placement is correct. Guaranteed cash prizes of $20,000 will be paid out to the top 3,100 participants. Those who get the correct finishing order of all 14 horses will win or share $1 million.
“As anticipation builds for the upcoming Breeders’ Cup World Championships, we are excited to offer daily fantasy players and racing enthusiasts a free way to have a real stake in the action this weekend,” said Justin McDonald, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Breeders’ Cup. “We thank our partners at FanDuel for their support and commitment to creating this fun and interactive contest.”
FanDuel Group includes the TVG and FanDuel brands and was first introduced as an official partner of the Breeders’ Cup in 2019.
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Breeders’ Cup Presents The News Minute: Vekoma’s Out, But The Devil’s All In On Pirate’s Punch
Saturday's $2-million, Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint lost Vekoma, the morning-line favorite, after trainer George Weaver reported the son of Candy Ride spiked a fever on Tuesday night and was treated with antibiotics. Vekoma won the G2 Blue Grass Stakes as a 3-year-old in 2019 and is unbeaten in three starts in 2020, with wins in the G1 Carter and G1 Met Mile Handicaps, but he'll be forced to miss the big show on Saturday at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.
Grant Forster appears to be having fun with the 666 saddle towel number assigned to his first Breeders' Cup starter, $1-million, G1 Dirt Mile contender Pirate's Punch, suggesting the son of Shanghai Bobby is “the devil's choice” in the race.
And can Chad Brown add to his record of 15 Breeders' Cup world championship race wins (second only to D. Wayne Lukas) in the Juvenile Turf on the Future Stars Friday program? Ray Paulick seems to think so.
Watch the Breeders' Cup News Minute to find out why.
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