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Any idea who this is? Doesn’t sound like anybody on the Racetech roster – presume the duty caller wasn’t able to make it this afternoon and he’s a late sub.
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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.
If you’re talking about ATR, it was the inimitable (well, who would want to ?) Matt Chapman … didn’t hear the reasons why the scheduled commentator was absent … personally, I found it bearable as long as you turned the sound off completely !!!!!
Matt filled in for ATR viewers initially, I gather (not that they’d have heard that on-course, I don’t think), but for the last race or two (at least) the course found someone and he had a go.
What a shame the sadly-missed Johnnie Fenwicke-Clennel passed on over a year ago – he called many of the points at Hexham, Friars Haugh and environs up until his death and he’d have loved to have stepped into the breach.
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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.
personally, I found it bearable as long as you turned the sound off completely !!!!!
Ditto! I turned the sound off, made sure I knew the colours and did a commentary to myself.
Rob
Chapman comes across as a genuinely affable, good-natured sort of bloke, but I found myself wondering if, for some reason, he wanted to go out of his way to rile people.
I found it bizarre that he gave what seemed like multiple accounts of the finish of the previous race while the next race was well in progress, obviously with its commentary blocked.
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