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Has anything been confirmed yet?
I have noticed nothing on the Racing Post website or nothing on BBC News site either.
Has anything been confirmed yet?
I have noticed nothing on the Racing Post website or nothing on BBC News site either.
Same here, I’ve been checking sites and there’s been no update whatsoever.
I’m aware that the comments on this thread are meant to be positive and well meaning but why exactly are we still clamouring for more details of poor Dougie’s demise? Is it not better to allow his family to deal with their grief without everyone who feels they have some sort of connection to him because they listened to a Hexham Bumper on ATR poking their noses in? Perhaps I’m being callous, but I feel there is a huge difference between wishing that a missing person will turn up safe and well and looking for a story (salacious or otherwise) behind a personal tragedy. Eulogising the deceased is perfectly natural but speculation on the circumstances of the story is, in my opinion, at best pointless and at worst ghoulish. I apologise if I’m massively off-beam in my views.
I can see your point Rory, I think with all of us there’s an element of curiosity that’s probably not quite appropriate, but the sentiments are real. It’s human nature to seek answers. I doubt many of us have any connection to Dougie, nor would we claim to have, but that doesn’t stop us feeling very sad at his demise. We know little of him except that he was a likeable commentator, but it’s a terrible thing to happen to anyone and it does tug at your heartstrings.
The reason I’m scouring google for more news is that it hasn’t been confirmed that it was his body yet. Why wouldn’t we want to know what happened to him?It’s just been confirmed that the body they found is sadly doug fraser..my heart is very heavy as we all feel he was our friend even thow i never got to meet him ..he just had a way with words and was an absolute pleasure to listen to..my thoughts go out to his family and friends. Hope you are now at peace doug RIP xx
It’s been confirmed that Dougie Fraser’s body has been found.
From a racing perspective a distinctive and wholly professional voice that we’ll all miss.
From a personal perspective, and from all at TRF, our thoughts are with his family and friends. It must be a dreadful time for them and I hope they can find comfort somehow.
RIP Dougie Fraser
Very sad news about Dougie and my condolences to his family.
A really good commentator who never had any ego to make himself the star of the show and called races in a highly professional manner without making any mistakes.
Places such as Hexham,Sedgefield,Newcastle and Kelso will not be the same now his tones wont be heard and racing will be a much sadder place.
Whatever problems Dougie was having to go and do such a thing i do hope that he is now at peace and knows just how much everybody in racing will miss him.
RIP Dougie, Thank you for all the good calls.
Sad news indeed.
RIP Dougie..
My thoughts go out to his family and friends at this tough time.
Another familiar voice has gone. The pain behind it was never heard – it never is. The joy commentating brought him wasn’t enough to deter him. At 2:00am one morning, he’d had enough. I hope a bit more emerges over the coming days or weeks, but fear it’ll just pass over.
R.I.P. Dougie.
RIP. I know northern racing will never be quite the same again. Many a winner and loser i have, and millions others have had announced by him. He always seemed such a pleasant person when seen him at Sedgefield. Always with a sleeveless jumper/ tank top on over his shirt, quite endearing somehow. So sad.
His family should be very proud of him.
RIP
Seems timely to make a full response now following the positive identification yesterday.
This is a tragedy, and there will be many friends and colleagues of Doug, both within and outwith the Leeds racing media community in which he was so well known and respected, numbed to the core by his passing.
Darren Owen’s account in the
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will mirror many other people’s experiences of Doug in a working capacity. On those occasions during the very early days of the then Betfair Radio (when still taking studio feed from ICS in Leeds) when he was on duty, we found him as everyone else did – precise, personable, utterly professional and palpably still hugely enthusiastic about the game. Off-air before and after broadcasts, his quiet dignity and warmth of character were never not evident.
I hope a tribute of some description will take place at Hexham, where he was the first-choice commentator, for their final meeting of the summer tomorrow afternoon. I’m sure there will be. He loved it there, and they loved him. Longer term, a memorial race at the Northumberland venue would be a nice touch.
Rest in peace, Doug.
gc
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Seems timely to make a full response now following the positive identification yesterday.
This is a tragedy, and there will be many friends and colleagues of Doug, both within and outwith the Leeds media community in which he was so well known and respected, numbed to the core by his passing.
Darren Owen’s account in the
Post
will mirror many other people’s experiences of Doug in a working capacity. On those occasions during the very early days of the then Betfair Radio (when still taking studio feed from ICS in Leeds) when he was on duty, we found him as everyone else did – precise, personable, utterly professional and palpably still hugely enthusiastic about the game. Off-air before and after broadcasts, his quiet dignity and warmth of character were never not evident.
I hope a tribute of some description will take place at Hexham, where he was the first-choice commentator, for their final meeting of the summer tomorrow afternoon. I’m sure there will be. He loved it there, and they loved him. Longer term, a memorial race at the Northumberland venue would be a nice touch.
Rest in peace, Doug.
gc
Nice sentiments
I always liked him as a commentator
Indeed RIP Mr Fraser
An ultra-professional, unflappable and very accurate commentator. Recent appointments at Doncaster and in the Midlands show that Doug was well regarded by racecourses further south of his usual beat of the likes of Sedgefield, Hexham and Kelso. A desperately sad, untimely loss to the northern racing circuit and racing broadcasting. A memorial race or a Hexham card called by many of his commentating friends and colleagues is in order. RIP
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