National presence wanted for Apple Blossom telecast
 

Six weeks away from the showdown between Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta, Oaklawn Park officials were working to firm up live television coverage of the $5-million Apple Blossom Invitational Stakes (G1) on April 9.

ESPN analyst Randy Moss is representing Oaklawn in the negotiations. Moss, a longtime Turf writer who developed the Moss Pace Figures, is a native of Hot Springs, Arkansas, and he worked for Oaklawn for two years as operations director.

Mark Mandel, a spokesman for the ESPN family of networks, said on February 25 that the company was in talks over television rights for the Apple Blossom. ESPN will carry the live broadcast of the Masters golf tournament the same day from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. EDT.
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/nat...ce-wanted.aspx

This race is bigger than ESPN. Pay Per View is more like it

There's already one sport on life support that puts its biggest events on PPV. We don't need another.

NT

Huh?

Sounds like a great way to attract new fans - make them pay for something they don't care about.

You'd be a great racetrack exec.

Ppv Hd $69.95

For the fans in Hot Springs, a Saratoga salute. Who actually knows where Saratoga is, let alone Hot Springs.? That's the problem, nobody but us.;)

We're the best. Screw the rest.

:-)


PR is always good though.

So many people here in Houston, have NO CLUE, just how beautiful HOT SPRINGS is. I was just talking to a couple of girls about it the other day....It was like huh, what, where?
A really well kept secret , just 7 hrs north of here.

April 9: Apple Blossom (gr. I, Oaklawn Park), 7:00 p.m. (EDT), ESPN2 HD

Awesome. Thanks for posting this. For those of us in NYC, if it wasn't on one of the ESPNs, we'd be having to try to catch in between the harness racing on the OTB channel.

Thanks for the heads up. I was hoping they could work something out.