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Quote: from Racing Daily on 4:25 pm on Oct. 11, 2006[br]Yes UN, I pay £15 to watch the winter NH at Kempton as well as for Cheltenham, Aintree, Newbury, Newmarket etc. ;)<br>I don’t mind watching the dross if there is no other racing.  But given a choice, i’d take the above tracks anyday.  It isn’t the amount, it’s the principle of paying to watch stuff that i’d rather not watch.  I’ll probably fork out the extra £3pm in February.  But until then ATR offers nothing much that I am interested in.
(Edited by Racing Daily at 4:31 pm on Oct. 11, 2006)<br>
And i have no interest in the muddy field Cheltenham run-up so why would i want RUK, each to their own. I enjoy the dross i can’t stand the group race garbage that is hyped for weeks only for a mickey mouse pace to ruin the so called wonder event. I love tight competitive handicaps, small stakes mug punts for fun and entertainment. I personally restrict single punts to only when i hope my selection is UP for it!
For me ATR really comes into it’s own when the aw season gets under way .. £3 a month ?
YES
I think ATR gives a reasonable service, even though the ads drive me crazy as well.
RUK has better racing from England, but the best of it is already covered by the terrestrial channels anyway.
Where ATR really scores, though, is its full coverage of Irish racing.
In terms of value added ATR has more exclusive coverage of quality races than any other channel.
Quote: from LUKE on 4:51 pm on Oct. 11, 2006[br]Theres the cost of your television,electricity and custard creams while you watch.Free my arse.<br>
So, if it was not for ATR, you wouldn’t have a TV and an electricity supply Luke? You purchase these things simply to watch racing coverage on ATR, right? Or do you admit that you always had them anyway?<br>If you always had them, then they are not part of any accountable cost for any channel. Puleeze.<br>If we all are prepared to concede that ATR’s free channel isn’t actually free, then i’ll leave it at that. Please continue to debate the point though :)
As far as I am concerned any racing on TV is good and I don’t mind paying for it. ATR is not ideal but it is cheaper than RUK who to my horror had Tommo commentating from Wetherby today.
Remember not so long ago we were confined to BBC and C4 with a few races a week
Quote: from bluechariot on 6:58 pm on Oct. 11, 2006[br]As far as I am concerned any racing on TV is good and I don’t mind paying for it. ATR is not ideal but it is cheaper than RUK who to my horror had Tommo commentating from Wetherby today.
I noted that too. His reasoning for thinking that the loose horse in the first race would take out the rest of the field confused me somewhat. It was never an issue. I would hope that RUK don’t use him on a retainer, as that would be too much to bear and bring down the quality of the channel ;)
His reasoning for thinking that the loose horse in the first race would take out the rest of the field confused me somewhat<br> Racing Daily Posted on 7:04 pm on Oct. 11, 2006
<br>If you had a job, you would have to worry about all these things.<br>:biggrin:
His reasoning for thinking that the loose horse in the first race would take out the rest of the field confused me somewhat.  It was never an issue.
A bit similar to his assertion that "Turgeonev, the grey, is moving forward now" or some such rubbish in the closing stages of the Bobby Renton – granted, he was moving forward [just about]. However had he gone any slower he would have been stationary – getting into the race my arse!
<br> I would hope that RUK don’t use him on a retainer, as that would be too much to bear and bring down the quality of the channel ;)<br>
<br>RUK don’t call the shots over him commentating or not commentating at one of their tracks at all – Racetech will have rostered him onto that meeting about a year ago.
One of Racetech’s practices is to have one caller take in a number of (vaguely) geographically close tracks one day after the next over several days – hence Thommo’s conquest across the Midlands last Tuesday (Huntingdon, RUK), Wednesday (Towcester, ATR) and Thursday (Worcester, ATR).
Such deployment is one major determinant of the make-up of the commentator’s roster. The other is which commentators each course has expressed a preference for (I think they are asked annually). A degree of "best fit" is applied to make sure the courses’ wishes are met as far as possible, although not every course that wants someone particularly popular and in-demand like, for example, Richard Hoiles every time is going to get him, as demand exceeds the supply of days he is available.
gc<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 9:13 pm on Oct. 11, 2006)
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6 jumps meetings at Ascot on ATR before New Year – that alone is enough for me.<br>
And you get to see about half of the Cheltenham Festival 2007 winners before they ever set foot on an English racetrack!;)
Quote: from Adrian on 9:30 pm on Oct. 11, 2006[br]6 jumps meetings at Ascot on ATR before New Year – that alone is enough for me.
And on the BBC too, hopefully :)
£3 a month is nothing, for the service you get. That’s racing coverage  all day if you want it. And the edverts do bug me, of course they do, but they’ve tried to address that by keeping up the starting prices etc on the screen while the ads are going on wich makes it slightly more bearable. And yes you’ve got the interviews, the stable tours and other features. Think how much you pay a month for your Racing newspaper. Nah, £3 is sod all!
Mind you, Richard Pitman isn’t worth 2p! Did anyone see him yesterday? His ‘analysis’ of a race conists of telling you which one is certain to win….and then he’s wrong! He’s incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together.
(Edited by Burroughhill at 6:55 am on Oct. 12, 2006)
"He’s incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together."
…………….surely that can’t be!…….. didn’t you know he used to ‘write’ books?……………annnnnnnddddd did you know that he rode Crisp to be second in a Grand National?;)
Colin <br>
Quote: from seabird on 7:57 am on Oct. 12, 2006[br]"He’s incapable of stringing a coherent sentence together."
…………….surely that can’t be!…….. didn’t you know he used to ‘write’ books?……………annnnnnnddddd did you know that he rode Crisp to be second in a Grand National?;)
Colin <br>
And there was me thinking that he lost the Grand National on Crisp ;)<br>To say he finished second infers that he gave Crisp a good ride LOL
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