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📻 IMPORTANT AUCKLAND UPDATE 📻
Tasmanian racing on Free To Air TV for the first time since 2012
Nicolas Turner • January 6th, 2026 4:49 pm
Tomorrow’s Devonport Cup meeting (7 January) will be broadcast live on Racing.com, which is available on Free To Air (FTA), Foxtel, Kayo and streaming platforms.
It is the first time that Tasmanian racing will be broadcast live on FTA since 2012.
Tasracing CEO Andrew Jenkins said he appreciated the flexibility demonstrated by long-term, principal broadcast partner, Sky Channel, to enable Tasmanian racing to be broadcast on FTA.
“Our new media rights deal with Sky, which started on 1 January 2026, has an FTA allowance for 10 Tasmanian thoroughbred meetings each year to be broadcast live,” he said.
“The Devonport Cup meeting will also benefit from full coverage of every race as the South Australian and Victorian race meetings have been moved due to forecast hot temperatures.”
Mr Jenkins said it was likely that two other feature race days that formed part of the current Ladbrokes Tasmanian Summer Racing Festival would be broadcast on Racing.com.
The broadcast will be headed up by Matt Reid and Colin McNiff, including pre and post-race coverage.
Devonport Cup day has 10 races, the first scheduled for 12.30pm and the last at 5.42pm.
The Ladbrokes Devonport Cup is race nine at 5.07pm.
Tasmanian multiple Group 1-winning jockey Craig Newitt will be aiming to win his 10th Devonport Cup riding the Barry Campbell-trained Earendel.
Courtesy of Tasracing
