Racing Post sold

[mulls74]

I see from FT.com that the Racing Post has formally been sold for £190m to FL partners.
The most interesting line from the FT article was that the new owners have made charging subscriptions for the Racing Post website a key part of their future strategy.
Makes business sense, will annoy a lot of people though.

[dave jay]

Charge for access to the site .. another well thought out plan then, is this the same folk that was running the tube ..

[Small Bear]

doubt it will bother the sporting life guys

[Zorro]

The Sporting Life doesn’t have form does it, Small Bear?

[the welsh wizard]

Yes it does, Zorro, full career form of each runner.

[seabird]

It would just be a matter of getting used to the format.

[Aragorn]

Its not a patch on the post. They don;t have half the french form, no race analysis, no independent rating… I can;t get on the post from work so have to use it but would much prefer to use the RP.

[seabird]

…………….but they do include the Irish racing in their quick results service.

Colin

[dave jay]

I think it will depend on how much they want to charge for access .. if the way they have priced up the useless .pdf files are anything to go by, it will be out of reach for most recreational punters.

These ventures never make as much money as the accountants spreadsheets say they will.

[Cav]

As indispensible as Raceform Interactive is to me at 50 quid a month, I still find it easier and quicker to go through cards for selection criteria on the RP site and its free! I wouldnt mind paying say 15 quid a month for it if it does become a pay site.

[davidbrady]

The lifetime form of a horse on the Sporting Life website doesn’t even state if the race was a hurdle or a chase. You have to highlight the race date to find that info. As Cavelino Rampante states, I would no problem with something along the lines of £10-£15 per month.

[Artemis]

The RP website is excellent: If I couldn’t access it, I would have to purchase the RP paper version again. I’m surprised that it has been available free for so long. Its probably worth about a tenner a month, but if they charged on the basis of £0.20 per download or race, as they do now, it would probably cost me too much.

Surely they must be able to put together some sort of package that enabled users to download their favourite parts of the entire RP stable.

[onefurlongout]

Does anyone else use any other free sites to asses their form/selections? i prefer RP but I only use it 2-3 times a week so a monthly subsciption might not be my thing.

Can you get good prize money stats from any other sites?

[nitro]

Hi everybody!

I play races in different countries and so far I got most of the forms for free (Europe, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong). The only country where I have to pay for forms is America (well, we know it’s capitalistic ). Would be sad if the Racing Post charged them. Then I would put my information together from Sporting Life and At The Races (the forms they have are not so bad and you can register for free).

[seabird]

Welcome to The Racing Forum, nitro.

Colin

[nitro]

Thank you Seabird

[JAR]

The Sporting Life, Attheraces and a daily newspaper will have to do for me if they start to charge. I wonder if the Life will still publish the NAPS table though?

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