BHA Xtra, the BHA鈥檚 innovative phone-blogging service, has today revealed its plans for the Cheltenham Festival.
Available at /BHAxtra/, our team on the course will be reporting back from the festival and providing live audio updates of all the big news, including:
- Interviews
- Essential breaking news and information
- Updates from the Stewards Room
- Reaction, analysis and comment from our team of Handicappers
The service is designed to be an on-course punters pal, providing eyes and ears from all four days of the Festival for those who can鈥檛 make the trip down to the Cotswolds.
Listen to BHA Website Editor Robin Mounsey describe the service BHA Xtra will be providing at Cheltenham:
In order not to miss these聽essential and exclusive updates聽users can 鈥榝ollow鈥� BHA Xtra by using the appropriate button on the BHA Xtra player, so users receive a brief email every time聽a new audio blog聽is posted.聽Users can also comment on any of the articles or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The result is a fast, unique and innovative way to keep up to speed with all the events from the biggest fixture in Jump racing.
Also,聽those blogging about or from聽the Festival聽can embed any of our audio clips you like into your blog, simply by clicking the 鈥榚mbed鈥� icon and copying and pasting the code.
Paul Struthers, Media Relations Manager at the BHA, said: 鈥淲e are very excited about introducing the BHA Xtra service at the Cheltenham Festival.聽The service will聽 provide a brand new way for racing fans to keep up to date with all of the crucial news and information from the course, and create an essential service that no serious fan can do without.鈥�
In the lead up to Cheltenham, BHA Xtra spoke to Harry Findlay about the much anticipated Gold Cup clash between Kauto Star and Denman. Harry speaks primarily about the horses themselves, their unique personality, their friendship and whether it will all be left behind in the yard on the day, as well as who he thinks will be the coolest customer come Gold Cup day.
Visit BHA Xtra to hear the interview, as well as the full Q&A session with Nick Luck, Harry Findlay and Clive Smith, and make sure to 鈥榝ollow鈥� us to ensure you don鈥檛 miss a thing.
Notes to Editors:
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽BHA Xtra is powered by ipadio, which allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet, live. For more information about ipadio visit
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 BHA Xtra can be found on the following URL: /BHAxtra/
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Use the green button containing a white arrow to 鈥榝ollow鈥� BHA Xtra and receive email updates when new content is posted
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 You can also use the RSS feed button to receive updates using RSS, while clicking this icon will also give you the option to download the audio clips as an mp3 file
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 You can also embed the ipadio player onto any website or blog using the 鈥榚mbed鈥� icon
–聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Click the speech bubble icon to comment on any of the postings
