Visiting overseas tracks

[tbwinner]

Anyone ever been to a track outside the US? England, Ireland, Japan, Australia?

Think it'd be interesting - with bookmakers, different forms, etc. Where would you even start to handicap? Is there an equivalent to Thorograph for UK/Asia/Aus racing??

Planning a trip to Europe the next few years, would be cool to go to Newmarket, Ascot, etc... anyone been?

[46zilzal]

There are various travel agencies that have tours of many of the UK tracks. Went to many a bookie shop all over England about the time of the Grand National Steeplechase one year.

I visited several in Ireland and the UK, and then Sopot (a steeplechase course in Poland)

[Onesome]

been to longchamp (Arc day), Rosehill, Flemington, Happy Valley and Sha Tin.


At longchamp I could get RacingPost, for Australia theres a form book available online similar to what you get at punters.com.au or Racing And Sports. For Hong Kong I use my own scrapped data from the HKJC website, but RacingPost and Racing and Sports are best.


As a word of caution-if your process have an over reliance on sectionals and speed figures, you're going to have a bad time.