How come the yanks are so much more advanced than the rest of the world (maybe bar asia) when it comes to technial stuff like camera work etc. I think i just witnessed the worst race i have ever seen from a spectators point of view. For the whole first half of the race they never showed alinghi who was in 6th place, let alone any other horse who was behind her (i still cant work out how many ran the actual race).

Could you imagine having a bet on a horse you liked and it finishes 4th or 5th but cause it is a backmarker you actually never see it in the race and it never gets called cause the caller calls positions 1st, 2nd and 3rd plus the favourite. I would end up having to check that it actually jumped out of the barriers to know that my horse went round the track.

I am not sure what the audience is like in america or what there $$ are like in the industry, but i dare say a good aussie race caller could definately make a good pay packet and get the crowd right involved like they do downhere.