New station Racing FM galloping ahead with live course commentaries from every race in Ireland and the UK

It is little wonder the innovation has been described as a “no brainer” by one prominent racing journalist and yet until last summer, there was no independent horse racing radio station bringing live commentary from every race in Ireland and the UK, as well as interviews and analysis.

RacingFM is very much in its infancy but founder, Dean Ryan has been encouraged by the reaction to its inception and understandably so.

Boasting in the region of 25,000 listeners and targeting around the 20,000 mark for downloads of its free app by the end of Cheltenham week, it is already a success story given a pretty tight marketing budget, although Ryan is adamant that the market is much bigger and there is more significantly more to come.