Punters betting on the Caulfield races in Victoria last weekend received a rude shock when an afternoon of clashes with high profile NSW races meant the southern state's meetings were bumped from Tabcorp's main Sky Racing channel.

Racing Victoria's decision to shorten the space between races to 30 minutes from the standard 40 minute gap sparked a networking headache for Tabcorp and led to seven of the nine Caulfield races being pulled from the main Sky channel. The direct clashes with competing races around the country meant Victorian racing was instead relegated to the subscription-based Sky Racing 2.