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I bet some of you lot are a hoot at parties!
How miserable do you have to be to get wound up by Tommmo doing comms once in a while?? As far as I’m aware he springs up once in a blue moon at places like Bath, wolves and other midweek obscurity meetings.
He doesn’t take himself seriously and if you’re not blind should be able to see for yourself what’s happening from your own telly. If you’re at the track it would surely be part of the fun listening to him!
Commentating is a serious business and should be treated as such.
However he’s a charismatic guy who’s passionate about what he does and dare I say it probably the sort of chap who if he walked up to a first time racegoer with his microphone might actually engage them.
Or get sprayed with mace by young women – sorry, “females” – who deem him to be an old perv.
https://nitter.poast.org/AccidentalP/status/1734102288090734718#m
Any excuse to post this gem.
Only just reading this now but well said TC. Got enough moaning gits at work, don’t need it on this forum.
Amazing to think Derek Thompson was involved in the negotiations during the Shergar horse napping.
” A lot of commentators these days sound like they go by the televised pictures instead of using their own eyes.”
Broadly, the ones who’ve spent at least some of their formative education in point-to-points and harness racing, or indeed still call at them, are the ones less reliant on monitors. One thinks immediately of messrs Harris, Owen, Topham, Powell and to a certain extent Fussey, all still very comfortable with the binoculars.
Anecdotally, Derek was attending Hutton Rudby point-to-point back in March in his capacity of host and MC of the silent auction, and was heard to ask where the duty commentator’s monitor was (the commentary “box” being nothing but a trailer, utterly exposed to the elements).
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Updating my commentator spreadsheets the other day, I noticed that Derek was back at Ayr on April 28th, so the errors in January appear not to have led to a never-darken-our-doors-again instruction to him from the course.
He didn’t appear to be his usual ebullient self to this pair of ears, however, at least initially. He stumbled out a mention of the runners setting out on their first circuit in the opener, which was a sprint over the straight 6f; and there was a nervous chuckle inside the distance, seemingly to buy himself a second or so to sort out the placed horses behind the easy winner.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
7.00 Wolverhampton. Derek uncharacteristically called one as the winner but clearly got it wrong.
Perhaps he should stick to exclaiming PHOTO after all.
The Golden Rule is if you think the one on the nearside has won it, it usually has but if you think the one on the far side has won it, it might not have done.
So who will win “Thommo’s” Swansong?
Surely must be Master Dandy!
Or maybe not such an Early Release for us all!
Not Just Yet! Thommo changes his mind
Or blast from the past – Macs Dilemma – He must have had a few!
Waiting with bated breath
Interview with Lee Mottershead on Racing Post TV worth a look if you haven’t been overexposed to the real man over the years
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I’ve always enjoyed his presenting , I hope he has a long and happy retirement .He’s only stopping commentating, not other presenter type duties.
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