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There are no more Horseracing in the UK until the end of April  :'( , the Grand National is postponed  :'(
Irish Horseracing and all Greyhound racing is moving behind closed doors, but until when? We can see a shutdown of all races soon, it depends on the government decision, and let’s hope that this restriction won’t last more than a ~month

All sports(winter) have been shutdown. Ncaa basketball cancelled their March Madness tourney, the NBA shut down, Major league baseball postponed opening day 2 week(possibly longer) as have other sports i'm sure.

Sports are not the only thing suffering, casinos have shut down, restaurants are no longer offering dine in services, schools are shut down, hospitals allowing only 1 visitor per patient, and many other things suffering.

No Kentucky Derby in May. :( :(

Yes , all the sports have been shut down and that is what is needed right now . Social distancing is not possible when sports events are held right ? This restriction can indeed last more than a month , it depends on the situation of the virus .

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Also,move this to Gambling discussion .

Bettors must have anticipated it already that all events are going to be postponed, MMA fights were also postponed for the purpose of preventing covid19 to wipe out human race. There were news that Covid can also be transmitted to animals, this virus cam mutate itself.  Gambling though can easily be done online, there are even racing ponies in some gambling sites. Check fortunejack's be page promotion is all about racing.  :D

Yes, Not getting infected by the virus is the top priority of our world right now and almost all governments forced to postpone events that may build up a big crowd to reduce the victims of this pandemic. It is not totally bad to sacrifice the games to avoid getting infected right? A little sacrifice to avoid getting our lives to danger. There are many options for playing race games. That's right Fortune jack is now offering a racing game right now. I know it's not the same as usual live horseracing but It might pass your satisfaction as a gambler.

Isnt actually a surprising thing imho and as mentioned by yahoo above that everything is almost shutdown due to pandemic reason not only on gambling industry but on other sectors as well.

As long this virus still exist, these operations wont resume. Hoping only for a month? Cant still be sure yet if we do try to check out the progress of covid19, it becomes worst as day passed.

Lots are suffering now, not only gamblers.

At first I was thinking "why would there be no horse racing, horses are not getting infected?" for a while. Afterwards I realized maybe it is the visitors. I mean even if lets say jockeys are prone to infection if they race, but greyhounds have no jockeys so it can't be that, it must be the viewers. Think about it, there are thousands of people who go to these places and watch these races every single time it happens, plus many of them are very old as well, it is famously loved by elderly posh people as well.

It means this precaution must be for the people in the stands who are too close to each other and watch it and not the animals. I still have no idea if animals could be infected or not, I have searched it but there is no %100 answer to it so far.

Well, we have nothing to do with the restrictions and postponed sports right now. The best thing to do for now is to abide and follow the procedures the authorities are giving to protect our health against the covid pandemic. Everything is being shutdown for social distancing and to avoid the spread of the pedantic covid 19. In our area of influence, --is indeed what we can do is to have more patience and hope that covid-19 get rid and will go away soon.

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Indeed, I am excited to watch Alvarez vs. Golovkin fight but it was postponed too.

I don't think so.
In my local, the most popular cricket league IPL has been postponed and the governing body is yet to come to a fix date. There's no certain time frame when it may start although some say it will be around last of April but the way Covid19 is spreading I doubt it will be easy to start within 1 month. I guess it will exist much longer than we are expecting it to be.

Very sad news about Horse and Greyhounds racing, but we can do nothing..

Very sad news to gamblers who really want to bet on horse racing or other kind of sports. We really don't know on how long will be the game postponed. Let's just hope that covid-19 won't stay too long and every sports will be continue to play especially tournaments. All we can do for now is wait.

There's nothing on the Australian T.A.B.'s website (https://www.tab.com.au/) to even say there should be social distancing much less postponing or cancelling Australian / New Zealand race fixtures.

The Australian Govt has introduced a 500 person's outside, or, 100 persons inside rule except for shopping centres etc. so in theory country races could keep going, but not the city meets.

A full list of suspend leagues world wide can be viewed here: http://tabinfo.com.au/lmwp/leagues/postponed-leagues.pdf Two of the three pages are football (Soccer) leagues.

Transmitted to what animals exactly? horses, dogs (heard dogs don't get it?), chickens, etc? Another thing is to know if can be transmitted from animals to humans.
Ponies =virtual horses? It is probably better than racing with real horses. Sometimes I wonder if the real horses are ok with people using them in racing. It could be a good way of getting them exercise once in while though. They mostly look healthy to me, and well taken care of.

in italy too same situation.
A very interesting thing in Italy is that related to football. friendly matches in esports have been set up, and people like it.

they are now thinking of making official matches, a sort of virtual championship (esport)

Expect that there will be a mass shutdown soon. They don't want to be affected by the pandemic and it's just a countermeasure to stop all the upcoming race.
Be patient until this covid19 is gone.

Done

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Today we we have a live Horserace in Ireland behind closed doors, at Dundalk,  8 races
And the Greyhounds are still operating "normal", well without watching live, but still operating

If they shut down all, like is the case for the UK Horseracing, I'm afraid that there will be lot of abandoned dogs, cause if they are not able to run, and make profit... you know what can happen to them  :'(

same here . i dont heard of diseases exist on horses but to other animals that you mention above yes they have histories  but corona is said to exist on bats and pangolin only and not on other animals so its still safe to use horses i guess but still events that are crowded should be shutdown temporarily to avoid people from getting infected  .

 there are still online horse race and the horse are not real but i think they can be easily manipulated unike to a real horse that is controlled by humans   .

All economy activity depend government decision, they must shutdown many place to make sure the virus not spread. It's hard for us specially when we need move into another place for fun and income. On line network is our solution right now and I believe many game still open for us, such as casino. If possible you can try join gambling community, they will help you find open gambling for you.

If people will care much more and keep their hands, hair, body, clothes clean as possible, wear masks, disinfect all around as much as it is possible, the virus will not be able to spread like it does now
The shutdown of all is not always the best solution

It is better to prevent than to cure. Well, we see that many things have been shutting down because the owner doesn't want to risk more people to get infected by the Coronavirus. It's a hard decision for them, but they must do it for many people before it's too late. We need to take care of our health and try to keep our body healthy, so the virus does not attack us. 

We can't really blame someone or an entity to be the cause of the shutdown of most of the platform where we are betting on, right now, the priority is the safety of everyone including the players and gamblers, imagine, if many people die, that could probably affect the market too much so it is better for us to stay at home and wait because everything will be alright soon.

Well, there's nothing to worry about gambling these days. We could just try to play online and pay using cryptocurrency, I am pretty sure, we can still get the satisfaction we want when we try it.

Lastly, the risk of playing/gambling online is significantly lower because we don't have any contact, just our computer.

As we take care of humanity, we also need to take care our animals so postponing the horseracing is important. Most of the sports are being postponed even the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, and etc., because those sports association are taking care of their players,staffs and officials. Other animals sports or events that requires animals need to stop as soon as possible for them not to get the virus from other people. Those who still do bullfighting or animal racing must be arrested and be accountable on what they're doing. We all know that animals are like a human that can get diseases on their surroundings and no one is exempted from the virus. As the World Health Organization said, the first case of a dog having the Covid-19 is in China and it can still grow the population more of the animals having the virus.  

It's not only horse racing but all other sports are cancelled, in the meantime we should take this time as a vacation for gambling. But if you're really a gambler by heart then we need to find some alternatives like online casino's. Sports betting sites should also consider adding more games than just sports in order to not lose any customers.

The virus can be easily transmitted in crowd places, it is possible to be infected when you have close contact with another person. They are just being concerned on the health of the players, shutdown is the best option because covid19 is life-threatening. They will probably resume all sports game event when we totally conquered the virus. As you pointed out, playing online is the best way to entertain yourselves on a time like this because it is much convenient and you're safe from any harm.

It's a sad reality in the present condition, we are losing every entertainment that we used to enjoy, we are in a community quarantine right now and cannot even go up, this is something new to all of us and it's hard to think that this is going on indefinitely but on the positive side I get to be on my family for a long period of time.

China's news yesterday was very positive, its the first time that no one was reported to be infected.  It could be a that they have finally prevented it from spreading in their area and that means they got a tight preventive measures and animal restrictions. The virus may not have infected horses or dogs but it never hurt to prevent the horse racing for now since the events will make the people gather thus giving the chance for virus to spread thru it.

can you normally bet on greyhounds with bitcoin? :-D #fuckcorona

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-competition.html there is nothing we can do now other than hoping that researchers who are racing to find the Covid-19 vaccine can immediately give good news and I think we are close to the vaccine.. Horse racing is a very prestigious sport for Europe, especially the UK, sad to hear this news, but currently all international or local sports around the world are postponed.

As long as the corona pandemic still cannot be resolved, the restriction will always be there, rather than expecting a reduction in restriction, why not expect the coronavirus to disappear faster and I think it will be much better if compared to just selfishness now is not the right way because apply restriction for a few months longer or sooner, still we just need to be patient and wait and hope everything gets better.

Its indefinite. therefore, we should really expect that this would really extend if we cant see any signs of slowing down of progress of corona virus.
As long it wont get resolved then its expected that this would extend out and this wont only affect sports industry but others as well.
Lets hope that this wont get worst even more.

It would be somewhat understandable if esports would become virtual or would proceed or doesnt totally postponed yet
their matches can be done via pc so its understandable that they can still proceed in spite of this current problem
but well there would be not audience.

Three groups of scientists have found a vaccine but it would take several months 6 to 12 months of testing before they can release it to the market, the one that has a good chance to get early in the market is the Evigan Vaccine because it is already in the market it is used to cure pneumonia and scientist from China found it very effective in Corona virus.

Horse racing and Greyhound racing should both be banned for good. Using animals, working them in to a life of slavery that often leads to major health problems or death, is wrong and needs to stop. They run these animals in to the ground. They aren’t here for our entertainment.

We have to understand why these things have been stopped is to stop the people gathering so we can stop the spread of this virus/disease. Curing is not a hard task with this pandemic only the spreading rate threatening everyone in this world.

I really wish that the pandemic will be over soon because I am a fan of horse race, though this may sound disappointing this is for our safety that they are postponing this races. I don't want to contract the virus because I want to watch a race, you feel me.

Yes, even our local horse racing event here are being cancelled as well. 4-5 days of horse betting, 6 pm - 9 pm of weekdays/12 pm - 6 pm of weekends, damn lot of racing I'm going to missed.

However, health concern is very important, more than 200 cases here, almost 20 have died from ncovid-19 pandemic, so I'm ok not betting on one of my favourite past time.

Maybe we could wait a little further, everything will be alright, it is just that horse race game involves allot of contact, not from the players but from the viewers that are watching live and in addition, there is currently a lock down, that means that it is not only the horse racing games that are postponed but almost every platforms where we could play and bet physically.

That means that we should consider playing online such as a visit to gambling site, let's take for example, in freebitco.in, we could play as easy as hi and lo, and earn allot from it based from our bets.

And there is no bookies open in UK from today up to the end of April (for now)
So, only online betting, but it will all shut downs soon

Stay at home, cause this covid shit is a great mess...  :'(

We all know this situation really affects a lot of us.
Bookies, customers, or players alike, they are all affected.
Not only that, all kinds of businesses are shutting down.
In times like this, we just all hope that those companies who are working on the vaccine or possibly cure will give a light on what they are doing.
We are now more concerned with how we can survive in our everyday life and forget our entertainment side for the time being.

Many events has been shutdown because of covid19 it isn't just the sports but also other events as well.
Many business has been affected because of it the economy is crashing down.

I think this part is what every business owner wants. The immediate resume of business operations and the possible recovery of income losses. Imagine that being the situation when you are in their shoes? I think you would want the same thing. I still think it's better to obey the protocols so that the quarantine/lockdown would be finished sooner.

Exactly, I also bet on horse racing, but what can we do right now? this cover-19 pandemic has bring the worst on everything we love, including all kinds of sports and casino betting.

So it's betting to just stay home, just close to your family, just think of it as a bonding time. Or you can play cards with them, just to not get bored.

I heard on the radio a little earlier today that the Cloncurry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloncurry,_Queensland) races were held yesterday without attending crowds due to the COVID-19 500 person's outside rule that has been implemented here in Australia.  The Cloncurry races attract a large crowd and signals the start of the Outback racing season.  So, it looks like Australian Horse racing is still on but without attending punters.

All Sports related that is gathering an audience on people are shutdown of discontinuing in the meantime because of the said pandemic, let's just all cooperate with the government, that is preventing the spread of the said deceased, so let's all remember to just stay indoors and let's not become the problem itself but the solution to this pandemic,

Well, in my opinion, if this Pandemic continues this lockdown or quarantine thing can be extended if the virus would just get worse.  

The restriction will last on Horse racing and other sports unless and until the world is clean from coronavirus. So if you want the sports get resume, hope the world could get the vaccine for this virus and this emergency situation comes to an end. 
At the present moment, no one is sure when all the sports will resume.

after a long silence there are some news regarding the re-opening of the racing

HRI breaks silence by announcing proposal to resume racing earlier than June 29 (https://www.racingpost.com/news/coronavirus/uncertainty-lingers-for-irish-racing-as-government-says-june-29-date-remains/433357)

they are trying to make some pressures to resume earlier than June 29, well, is sill a long long time to wait, but better June than August...

it is not only those that are closed or shutdown. Almost all sportsbook betting and casinos in the affected country are closed during the Covid-19. This shutdown has several reasons and purposes:
1. Those places are the locations with many people, on the other hand, we must do physical distancing to avoid being affected by Covid-19.
2. We do not know who has been affected by the virus, although the person looks healthy, it doesn't mean that he may not get the virus, he may be a carrier. So, better to stay away and keep physical distancing
3. people prefer to be safe and alive than forcing to get much money but risking their life at that time
4. People can play online betting or gambling in this pandemic era.

It doesn't depend on the government. It depends on how the coronavirus still affects the country. The medical party will give data when the pandemic ends or when everything is okay to be opened again. And then, the government can announce when it is. We cannot determine for a month or month, just let them work and we just follow their regulation and restriction if we want to stay healthy and alive.

Even though I'm not a fan of horseracing, but my close friends really like horseracing. So I watched horseracing several times. The main
reason I came to watch was not because I wanted to accompany my friend, but I also sometimes took part in horseracing betting. And it
was very fun for me, but because of this covid-19 disaster horseracing was affected. And some horseracing matches postponed like any
other sports. Hopefully the corona virus vaccine can be found soon, so that the spread of the corona virus can stop. After that all sports
including horseracing can run normally again.

All activity and business that is related to have contact body with other people already reduced or close because the government doesn't want to see more people suffer because of the Covid-19. It happens with the sport, and that causes all of the sports events to have cancel or delay or even shut down. This prevention is what the governments need to do before they can figure out how to solve this pandemic. We need to obey their decision and help them to work hard to fight on this pandemic.

We already stay at home for more than a month, and perhaps, we will remain at home for more until the government can announce that the situations are clear and safe. The government will hard work and make sure that the pandemic is over so they can announce to the public that they can go out with the safety from their home.

All of the government today from different places all over the world wants to stop all of the activities that have a gathering because they want to avoid the virus getting spread rapidly. Also, it is better to become safe than pushing ourselves to continue the horse racing also it is not good because only limited people will be trying to attend this race and as an organizer of the game it is a good impact on the show? I think it's not so it is better to make focus on our selves first because this game because we can give many people soon a good match so it is good to the players and horses of the game because they can now rest and make full preparation to make sure their winning game.


All of us want to wish this coronavirus will be gone because it is hard to make work at the same time we cannot go outside all of the things we need to do is limited because they want to stop getting outside.

https://www.tab.com.au/


http://tabinfo.com.au/lmwp/leagues/postponed-leagues.pdf has a full list of other sports and their current resumption dates/ continued lockdown information.

Summary:

Horse Racing, Greyhounds and Harness racing have all continued (without punters track-side) during the Australian Covid-19 Lockdown.

NRL Rugby League is set to restart very shortly (28^th May) but the NSW and Qld Cups have been cancelled outright. AFL is set to resume on the 11^th of June.

Nearly all overseas sports are still either cancelled, or suspended indefinitely.

It will take months or even a year before things will get back to normal, we will have a new normal now, and it's more on following what the medical experts are saying about keeping ourselves safe from infection, if they can follow those guidelines they can continue,there boxing events being held from other countries, so other sports can follow too.

One thing is sure that world will change its habits and the way we use to do things before this virus and after the virus is gone we will have a different pattern in ourself. Things would be done in little different way and more and more precautions every individual would have to take whenever their is a social gathering in order to safeguard our self. So till the time this could not be followed we might not see much games in action.

This thing is not permanent, we will get over it maybe within a year provided that the experts can provide us with an effective vaccine to eradicate this virus, but this virus is going to be endemic it will be a seasonal virus and we really need a permanent vaccine for this, I just hope the vaccine is not so costly and anyone can avail of this vaccine even the poorest of the poor.

The beauty of horse and greyhound racing is the gathering of the people and cheering for their dog or horse that they have bet on.Even if certain events are held without public it is not the same as if it were held with the people cheering and joying during the races.I hope this Covid-19 thing ends before we all think it would.

dunno if what is greyhound racing earlier but after reading your post i see that it was a kind of dog racing ? i only hear the word greyhoundz band before .

they can still continue doing it without fans , the same as what other sports are doing  . it can be odd to you but that is only at first ,  later on you will still get used to the situation.  its like a do or dont situation because this is still for the sake of people's safety due to the ongoing corona virus pandemic .

The Birdsville Cup has been cancelled for 2020 and will be back in September 2021.

Birdsville Races the latest major event to be cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-25/birdsville-races-cancelled-2020-due-to-coronavirus-restrictions/12283552)

You are right. We will see this Covid-19 will end soon after the scientist can found the vaccine, and I believe that we will get the normal situations again. But we hope that the vaccine will be released before the end of this year so people who infected will totally get cured of the virus. We need to wait for the government and the scientist to work for helping the people so the number of people who infected can reduce.