Where the U.S. is committed to ending greyhound racing, the U.K. will extend the dog races to replace horse racing, which has been impacted by the coronavirus.
Racing content and data services provider Sports Information Services (SIS) has committed to increasing the number of dog races in its schedule to 532 per week, up by 54 races, according to SBC News.
On March 17, the British Horseracing Authority confirmed it has suspended all U.K. racing events until the end of April.
Paul Witten, product director at SIS, said, “Our revised channels schedule means that we can now provide bookmaker customers with a live greyhound race every six minutes, compared to ten minutes previously. British and Irish greyhound racing remains open for business and our online and retail customers will appreciate the increase in race frequency.”
The rescheduled service has been crafted to offer more racing at peak retail times, to optimize events in the afternoon slot.
