Televised horseracing service provider TrackPower made some waves yesterday at the Symposium on Racing in Tucson, Arizona when it announced the launching of a new website that will eventually facilitate Internet-based wagering. The company demonstrated its live interactive wagering service via the computer and the WebTV
TM platforms.
"The new website is the first step in TrackPower's development of a full service web-portal for horseracing," TrackPower Vice President and General Manager Graham Simmonds said.
The site currently offers detailed information on the company and its products, and sells racing information. Simmonds says it will soon feature live video and audio of racing as well as interactive wagering. It will be available to both computer and DISHPlayerTM/webTV users. Simmonds called yesterdays demonstration a big success.
TrackPower, Inc. operates a four-channel, live horseracing video service that's delivered via Echostar's Dish Network to horseracing fans throughout the Continental United States. Subscribers to the video service are able to wager on the races through Telebet/Dial-A-BetTM, a licensed phone wagering service operated by Penn National Gaming, Inc.
The online interactive service will be available for commercial use in January 2000.
Upon the commencement of Internet wagering, TrackPower will become the second North American company to deliver online pari-mutuel race wagering. Youbet.com went live with its multi-channel, closed-loop betting service in 1998.
TrackPower is available for purchase by calling 1-800-550-1777 or by visiting one of the nearly 20,000 DISH Network retail locations nationwide.