If you have the CBS Sports Channel (I have it through Hulu TV Live on my Roku television), it is starting at 9:30 p.m. EST tonight, 11/2/20. That’s just a few minutes from now. It runs for two hours until 11:30 p.m.
I believe you can also get TVG on your Roku (not sure about free, but I think so if you sign up for TVG). That offers, IIRC, TVG, TVG2 and TVG.COM races. That would get you just about everything… international racing in the morning and evening (including Australia), the NYRA races that TVG can’t carry (TVG.COM) and the, I’ll call them second tier, tracks on TVG2.
Thanks for the heads up as TVG does carry Australia racing in the evenings… often 3 or 4 different tracks. Big events are almost always covered (if you don’t mind being up at o’dark thirty to watch them :lol: )
Anthony Van Dyck broke down and had to be euthanized. Horrible. 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/03/sport/melbourne-cup-horse-racing-spt-intl/index.html
such a talented horse and for Australia and turf racing, a fairly rare fatality. Doesn’t make it any easier when it happens. 
IMO, a bit sobering that Anthony Van Dyck was the 7th horse in the last 8 Melbourne Cup’s to have died during the runnings.
Interesting information from the BH article
Concerns have been raised over the volume of injuries involving horses working at Werribee in recent years, with the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Red Galileo retired after pulling up lame following trackwork before last year’s Melbourne Cup.
Marmelo, trained by Hughie Morrison, and Charlie Appleby’s Ispolini also missed out last on year’s race after CT scans revealed signs of soreness.
While the breakdown may happen on the track during the race, it’s what happens before the race that can also have an impact.
Here in Alabama, back in the 80’s, a farm where I worked stood a Melbourne Cup winner, Beldale Ball. He was a son of Nashua and was a tall, rangy black stallion with a fair amount of white markings. He had an enormous stride and was kind but aloof. He was such an athlete, that I bred my foundation mare to him as well as the two other stallions that stood there over a few years. She produced a rangy, black colt that was an amazing mover and jumper. He went Preliminary at KHP in his prime and was successful in other events, jumping and dressage venues. He spent the last years of his life in a very loving home. I have a half brother who is 27, my retired dressage horse and a half sister to him. All were such athletes. Sorry to get a bit off subject, but I was always so impressed that Beldale Ball stood here! He was exported to the Czech Republic to stand at stud and I pray he was taken care of there. Godspeed to Anthony Van Dyke - hope he is healed in Heaven.
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