Qatar Goodwood Festival To Be Shown By A Record 32 Broadcasters

A total of 180 countries will be able to view the Qatar Goodwood Festival, which runs from Tuesday through Saturday, the racecourse announced on Tuesday.

The festival, which features three Group 1 races, will be available to an expanded audience through the efforts of the Racecourse Media Group (RMG), the HBA Media (HBA) and Goodwood Racecourse. For the first time ESPN/Disney+ and SuperoSport will show the full festival for the first time, 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.

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.”