Times to watch the Dubai World Cup and distribution issues

I just found out this morning about the specific times for the running of the Dubai World Cup today (Saturday, 3/27).

The undercard starts at 9 am EST and the Dubai World Cup runs at 1:45 pm EST. We can watch the action on TVG, HRTV and maybe some other resource, like a casino sports book or – eek! – the local off-track-betting parlor.

If you can’t watch the racing on your cable or satellite system, you can probably pay a fee to watch it online. (My cable system doesn’t have either racing channel, but I bought a subscription to online HRTV back when it was on sale at the end of last year.)

Or we can wait until the races show up in  online replays, which is – my apologies – where my dedicated and cherished RSS feed readers will probably have to watch it because I have NO way of getting in touch with them quickly.

Disadvantage of RSS for breaking news

Those convenient RSS feeds that arrive in our feed readers or mailboxes seem to go out in the evening. Odds are, the latest post here arrives around bedtime so you don’t read it until the next day.

Which, in this case, is too late.  (Insert your favorite swear word here.) I try to write “evergreen” stories – timeless stories — but the equestrian world often enters the world of culture through competitions and events. Sometimes, cool things happen fast.

I have posted the Dubai times on Twitter and Facebook, both of which have their drawbacks for the distribution of breaking news.

So, I realize that I need to finally look into what I’ve been putting off for a while  – setting up an online newsletter.

Why I don’t have a newsletter yet

I’ve been procrastinating because I didn’t want to add Just One More Thing to what y’all have to manage in those Inboxes.

And I wanted to pull together some special goodies for newsletter subscribers that will be available only through that form of distribution.

Plus, there’s also that little thing of the mystery novel that I’ve been writing. I’m finally working my way through the first draft of those crucial climactic scenes. I’d tell you more, especially about the equestrian-related setting of those scenes, but so much of the things I’ve blabbed about, I’ve ended up having to cut.

So, coming soon will be a newsletter. Really.

And, in the meantime, here’s a horseracing broadcast schedule from the NTRA which  will tell you which races will be televised, where and approximate times.

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