The Qatar Goodwood Festival, which got underway on Tuesday, will enjoy unprecedented TV exposure from the likes of Fox Sports in the US, ESPN / Disney + in South America and Caribbean, and SuperSport in Africa.
Racecourse Media Group (RMG) and HBA Media (HBA), working with Goodwood Racecourse, have ensured that the Festival, which features three Group 1 races, will be available to watch in more than 180 countries.
ESPN / Disney + and SuperSport are taking the full festival for the first time – on the back of taking just Sussex Stakes day last year – while first-time broadcasters include Racing.com (Australia) Sportsnet (Canada), Transvision (Indonesia), NTV (Mongolia) and Eurovision (Europe).
Audiences in UK and Ireland will be served by ITV, Virgin Media, Racing TV, while the Far East will enjoy coverage via Green Channel (Japan) and HKJC, Cable TV, TVB and Now TV (Hong Kong).
Broadcast crews from Fanduel (US), Sky Racing (Australia), HKJC (Hong Kong) and Al Kass (Qatar) will be on course to bring live coverage from the Sussex Downs, in the south of England.
Clerk of the Course and Director of International Racing at Goodwood Racecourse, Ed Arkell, said: “The Qatar Goodwood Festival is now firmly embedded as one of the major events on the international racing calendar – and global TV exposure is pivotal to this. We are delighted for the record exposure garnered by RMG and HBA Media and that more countries than ever before will be able to see what is sure to be a terrific week of racing.”
Qatar Sussex Stakes day is a feature of the Crown Jewels Racing (CJR) broadcast package, which showcases 18 of the best horseracing events in the world, all evenly spaced throughout the year. Broadcasters can elect to take the full 2.5-hour world feed (produced by ITV) or the CJR ‘Golden Hour’ (produced by ITV, Racecourse Media Groupand HBA Media) around the Group 1 Sussex Stakes on Wednesday (3pm to 4pm BST).
