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I prefer ITV to C4, but there are a couple of things I’d like them to do. Firstly, not to push Ms Cumani down the ‘when my family won the [whatever race]’ route. It’s self indulgent, and we’ve had it from other presenters. Cumani is better than that. Secondly, if they are going to have McCoy on, make him understand that he is not centre stage here. Kinane was on the verge of saying something insightful about Swinburn, when McCoy waded in and effectively shut him up. At other points he talked over fellow presenters so that you couldn’t hear what either was saying, and it makes it hard to watch. There is a third thing, and that is Oli Bell, but I don’t know what the answer is to him. He’s like somebody that got lost on the way to the Blue Peter studio, and would be more at home with a toilet roll and some sticky back plastic (which shows my age).
I assume that Oli Bell is only there to interview his Newmarket mates in the paddock and I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who was trying to look at the horses behind the presenters.
I’ve given ITV a go since it started and during the jump season the coverage was bearable but yesterday was the final straw for me and it’s RUK for me from now on, at least for the rest of flat seasonDear ITV,
Please put all the fashion drivel on ITV2,3,4 or somewhere else (preferably up your arse).
Thank you.
Sadly ITV made no progress with questioning why Wesley Ward has such an advantage over his rivals. They did ask that question, but you sense with no pressure involved. Not quite as fawning as Channel Four were over him, but can see no progress has been made on the Ward issue, and Ascot themselves clearly love the publicity he brings to the meeting.
Dear ITV,
Please put all the fashion drivel on ITV2,3,4 or somewhere else (preferably up your arse).
Thank you.
Boring isn’t it? I’m sort of resigned to the fact that it’ll be part of the coverage of Royal Ascot. What really annoys me is that it seems to be gradually seeping into other big meetings, even jumps.
It is part of the ITV contract same as it was for BBC and C4 before them, that they have to show coverage of the fashion. Ascot market this meeting as much a social event as a racing one.
RUK get away with it as they are a specialist racing channel.
This is the first time I’ve not been at Royal Ascot for over a decade so was stuck with watching it on TV.
To my surprise I thought ITV did a reasonably OK job, although my expectations were low, so an easy base to start from.
We have to accept the fashion is part of the deal and, although annoying, it could have been worse – at least no Gok!!
Chappers was quite restrained – he even gave a decent tip with Rajasinghe.
The low point was the interview the usually good John Gleeson did with Sheikh Mo, it was an excruciating object lesson in sycophancy – frankly it would have been better or to have interviewed him at all.
Cannot see the point of that Lucy whatshername at all though.
How many more times those that clown Chamberlain have to remind us how HRM The Queen “Loves” her horses. ? Why doesn’t Chamberlain nip off for an ice cream while the fashionistas babble on? Or go looking for interviews and play them later. He added nothing to take piece bar keep telling the audience that HRM loves horses.
It is not like she is being dragged to something she does not like, put up in crap place to enjoy the racing or even have to spend a penny. Mother of good, 25 minutes of babble about what she wears. I know all of this is tradition, and that is great, but film the whole procession from gate to paddock?
But not as bad as “Laurel and Hardy” – who are not funny and, sadly, not silent either
But not as bad as “Laurel and Hardy” – who are not funny and, sadly, not silent either
You Matt and Brian? Ah, they are all right
How many times has Chamberlain mentioned the No 1 car park today? Better question is why, and also how long must we put up with this dull presenter who takes all of the excitement away from the sport.
How many times has Chamberlain mentioned the No 1 car park today? Better question is why, and also how long must we put up with this dull presenter who takes all of the excitement away from the sport.
Come back Nick, all is forgotten (I liked him anyway. Too many people were put off by him being posh)
Apparently no one told Francisca that Highland Reel won a Group 1 at 10 furlongs (claiming that he never won @10f , jesus it is not like she was on the spot when she considered what to say ) , or that he won a 7 f group 2 at 2. Any 10 f race that he was in last year was often as second string
Someone tell that hairdresser clown how to tie a tie properly (the waun with the peaky blinder blond boffin). Good grief. Ghastly . A child would do better
Would fashion enthusiasts love Racing talk? For some less fortunate than ourselves Royal Ascot is not about horses.
Value Is EverythingWhere’s the roar??? Got in from work, watched the Hunt cup and approaching the two furlong pole expected the noise of the crowd to intensify but it’s like ITV have got the mute button on!
Think you’re right Worzel it was certainly turned down just as they were about to anounce the result of the Stewards Enquiry on Tuesday because it was deemed that the fashionistas had more important news for us.
Why don’t Oli Bell and Co along with the fashion police take a trip into the Silver Ring and talk to some ‘real’ racegoers instead of hanging around Car Park 1 and The Royal Enclosure sampling cocktails and giving the impression that you have so much space and great views of the racing a Royal Ascot…
When I went for my first and last visit to Ladies Day it was Yeats’s last Gold Cup and I had to watch it on a TV outside a Ladbrokes Betting Office, in what was then the Grandstand which we had paid £60 for a ticket, because we couldn’t get a decent view of the race because of the crowds, did get to see Double Trigger in the paddock though after that race when the crowds dispersed, which made up for it a little.
Come on ITV show us the real Royal Ascot and talk to some people who actually know about horses instead of toffs in Car Park 1 who pick horses like Debutante’s Ball
, let us see what it’s really like at Royal Ascot on Ladies Day instead of the ongoing promotion of Michelin Star food and Signature Cocktails. Apart from that…Well done for keeping those top hats and tails on all through the heatwave guys.
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, let us see what it’s really like at Royal Ascot on Ladies Day instead of the ongoing promotion of Michelin Star food and Signature Cocktails. Apart from that…
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