Bank of screens in a betting shop showing animated race cards between the races

The news desk

Virtual racing news

16 stories, newest first: what the circuit ran, what the industry shipped, and what this desk got wrong.

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as at 25 October 2026

Correction 13 Oct 2026

Correction: The Global Draw went to Scientific Games, not Inspired

A column of 29 September said Inspired inherited The Global Draw. It did not, and the only real link is one person's biography.

Gus Abernethy · 2 min

Industry 7 Oct 2026

Who built the screen wall, and when it went up

The earliest date anyone will put in writing is 2001, and it comes from the company that builds the races.

Gus Abernethy · 3 min

What the desk covers

Two beats. The industry: RNG racing on shop and online screens, the televised one-offs, and the simulators people play. And this paper's own circuit — 10 venues, 21 published cards, and the weighting table every result was drawn from. Industry figures carry their source and date in the sentence.