YouTube Racing Video site Au

[Murray Fish]

Someone has put a bit of work into this site... lots of 30 Bests wins of each season.  

Australian Horse Racing.  Enjoy one of the biggest library's of Australia's best Horse Races from the 1960's onwards, plus some of my personal favorites from various years.

 

https://www.youtube.com/@australianhorseracing4019

[mikeynz]

I would love it if TVNZ and/or Sky would get all those old NPC rugby matches or All Black's  and all the archive Cricket stuff and post it on either you tube or TVNZ on demand, so much stuff there, it must have a market, I got heaps of old videos but some are fucked through time, they don't last forever.

Edited 23 hours ago by mikeynz

[hesi]

NZ Racing also, with all those videos on tape.

I actually looked into this and apparently all of the tapes are in storage in Wellington, slowly degrading.

The cost to convert to digital is apparently in the millions, but the tapes are probably too far gone by now

[Murray Fish]

16 minutes ago, hesi said:

NZ Racing also, with all those videos on tape.

I actually looked into this and apparently all of the tapes are in storage in Wellington, slowly degrading.

The cost to convert to digital is apparently in the millions, but the tapes are probably too far gone by now

sigh, all the great stuff from the 70's that was shown on TVNZ (or whatever it was then) and they Own the Copyright and charge a arm and  leg! hence look at a site like Hall of Fame, fecking near useless when it comes to video!

[hesi]

17 minutes ago, Murray Fish said:

sigh, all the great stuff from the 70's that was shown on TVNZ (or whatever it was then) and they Own the Copyright and charge a arm and  leg! hence look at a site like Hall of Fame, fecking near useless when it comes to video!

Yes the heritage of NZ racing is in the legacy that all those great horses have left.  Some videos on YouTube but most look like they are lost forever, only to remembered in the minds of the slowly aging people who either saw the races in person or watched on TV.  And they will be gone in time.

A crime that NZ racing never looked after its heritage and made sure they were preserved.  If not all races, then all the feature races over the years.

Particularly disappointed that I cannot watch Zonda winning the 1997 Derby.  I was there and it was a tremendous run, I even have some pics of him in the parade ring with Vinnie Colgan up, just before he went out and won

 

[Shab]

3 hours ago, hesi said:

Particularly disappointed that I cannot watch Zonda winning the 1997 Derby

Same. Someone must have it on tape and could put it on youtube for us all to enjoy.

[hesi]

You might remember that the Racing Board ran the TAB, the broadcasts etc etc.  Bit of a poke in the eye with a blunt stick, but they had huge overheads and costs, yet could not find the money to go through and put many of our best races onto digital.

I corresponded at the time with a guy called Antony Corban at the RB who was looking after the videos and there was no appetite or money to get degrading celluloid transferred to digital