It was originally launched on 1 May 2002 as Attheraces, a partnership between the aforementioned entities plus
Channel Four Television Corporation. It stopped broadcasting on 29 March 2004 due to financial problems but, after restructuring, was relaunched on 11 June 2004 without Channel Four. On 30 April 2018, it was announced that At The Races would be relaunched as part of the larger
Sky Sports portfolio as
Sky Sports Racing by the end of the year, being distributed widely via Sky Sports packages and platforms (including
Sky Go). Within the same month, it was announced Chester Race Company had signed a 10-year deal to bring Live Racing from
Bangor-On-Dee and
Chester to Sky Sports Racing from March 2019. In July 2018, it was also announced that beginning also in March 2019, it would also hold rights to
Ascot. The rebranding occurred 1 January 2019 although the "At the Races" brand remains as the channel's parent company, while the website and app became the channel's digital partners. ==Programming==