Horseplayers are losing one of their favorite free tools.
1/ST TV, the site that started life as XBTV, has stopped posting morning workout videos. The announcement came in a pop-up statement on its website: after a decade of filming more than 15,000 workouts a year at Del Mar, Gulfstream Park, Santa Anita, Saratoga and the South Florida training centers at Palm Beach Downs, Payson Park and Palm Meadows, the service ended effective Nov. 12, as first reported by TDN, BloodHorse, the Paulick Report, DRF and Horse Racing Nation.
The reason given was cost. “We explored ways to share the cost of this coverage across the industry but were unable to find a path forward,” the statement said. The existing video library stays up through the end of November.
Why it mattered
This wasn’t a niche product. Workouts on the site were viewed more than 2.8 million times between June 2024 and June 2025, according to the Paulick Report, and the crews uploaded nearly 14,000 workouts over that stretch. Every video identified the horse and any workmates, which is exactly what the clocker’s line can’t tell you. TDN and other outlets ran the videos on their own sites.
For anyone betting first-time starters or horses coming off a layoff, the tape was often the best evidence available. Handicapper David Aragona put it bluntly on X: “We’re going back to the dark ages of just guessing in maiden races.”
Aragona also floated an idea a lot of players have been raising. “I’m sure there are many out there who would have paid a subscription fee for this valuable service,” he wrote. “I was always surprised it was free.” He’s not alone. Canadian Thoroughbred’s Jennifer Morrison reported that a subscription model was a common suggestion among fans reacting online.
We’d be in that group, and we suspect plenty of you would be, too.
What comes next
Amy Zimmerman, Santa Anita’s senior vice president and executive producer, told BloodHorse she would let the statement speak for itself. TDN said it had asked the Stronach Group how it tried to share the costs and whether 1/ST TV will continue without the workouts.
The statement also pointed fans to live racing at gulfstreampark.com and santaanita.com.
The bigger picture
It’s one of several changes to racing coverage this year. FanDuel TV has already said it will phase out its horse racing coverage and switch to raw simulcast feeds in December, after the Del Mar fall meet, BloodHorse noted. Woodbine started filming morning workouts this summer and then dropped the project, per Canadian Thoroughbred.
There are still a few places to look. The Kentucky Thoroughbred Association posts workouts for free, though its focus is horses training in Kentucky, and Canadian Thoroughbred also points to BrunoWithTheWorks. Neither covers the California, Florida and New York circuits the way 1/ST did.
1/ST’s crews filmed a huge number of workouts over the last decade, and plenty of handicappers leaned on that work every day. It was a real service to the game. We hope the industry finds a way to bring something like it back, and if a paid version ever shows up, count us among the first to sign up.
Photo: Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders’ Cup.
