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If you can’t enjoy the luscious francesca looking stunning every day then more fool you. Matt was hilarious,like really enjoyable and head Turner is improving all the time. The film of caravaggio rearing in the stalls was amazing and shows how close it was to disaster. Ed is probably the only one not really suited but old Bell is relaxed and enjoyable. Miles better than channel 4 and Brian Gleeson is great.
Ed opining that Wannabe Grand was the best ever winner of the Empress Stakes; I take it he’s never heard of Diminuendo.
And now Chapman getting Royal Gait confused with Bold Gait. These people are meant to be professionals… how do they make such elementary mistakes?
And now Chapman getting Royal Gait confused with Bold Gait. These people are meant to be professionals… how do they make such elementary mistakes?
To be fair to Chapman , on this occasion ; even much greater men than him have become tongue-tied at times , and have been prone to getting the names of horses mixed-up . A man who has probably been more guilty of this than most – quite astonishingly – was the peerless grand master of commentating himself , the late , great Sir Peter O’Sullevan .
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No racing on my TV today. Can understand the TDF been on ITV4 as it’s been there for the past 3 weeks. But why do ITV have to show a meaningless friendly from the other side of the world between two London clubs
I thought it must have been the Charity Shield but obviously not. This is then followed by two repeated Quiz shows. All this on a day when Jumps action, albeit intermittently, returns to “some” screens 
There is racing on ITV3 today at 13:30 – including Market Rasen.
Due to my location I can’t get ITV3 on the telly. I am watching it on the laptop though.
So much talk of Magical Memory not acting on soft.
Do they not read the form book?
Value Is EverythingWhisper it, but was Sir Peter O’Sullevan really much good as a commentator?
Yes, whisper it very gently, LS.
Sir Peter was ahead of his time. But nowadays, imo there are several better than he was.Value Is Everything<p abp=”410″>Whisper it, but was Sir Peter O’Sullevan really much good as a commentator?
<p abp=”411″>Yes, whisper it very gently, LS.<br abp=”412″>
Sir Peter was ahead of his time. But nowadays, imo there are several better than he was.I’m trying desperately hard to think of one from BBC or ITV……or any from overseas.
<p abp=”410″>Whisper it, but was Sir Peter O’Sullevan really much good as a commentator?
<p abp=”411″>Yes, whisper it very gently, LS.<br abp=”412″>
Sir Peter was ahead of his time. But nowadays, imo there are several better than he was.I’m trying desperately hard to think of one from BBC or ITV……or any from overseas.
Sir Peter was head and shoulders above his peers, Kingbenitch; the rest were pretty crap. That’s why he stood out. Any mistakes made were not criticised as much because other commenatators made a hell of a lot more – so his mistakes were forgiven easier… And there was no social media for criticism. All of those things contribute to how people see him today.
imo Standards of commentators are generally (in Britain not Ireland) far greater nowadays. Of his generation only Sir Peter would’ve got a job today. Hoiles imo is the best I’ve heard, expresses the race’s overall picture, misses very little and makes fewer mistkes. Holt isn’t far behind. Latter once told me the former has a photographic memory (witness standing in at York at a moment’s notice recently) which undoubtedly helps. Hunt, Tomlinson, Bartlett are all very good. All today’s best no doubt helped/learnt from listening to the Daddy (or Grandad) Sir Peter. It’s surely not surprising some sons and grandsons end up better than the great man.
Value Is EverythingYes Hoiles did a great job on the fly watching the York pictures on telly after the race had started..I think somebody shoved a copy of the paper into his hand and he got on with it. It wasn’t a small field either and he was so professional I wouldn’t have known that he didn’t have time to prepare. Impressive.
Accuracy and insight, while vital, aren’t the only criteria. The timbre of the voice and the atmosphere or emotion it generates in the listener or viewer. None today can match, or even come close to, O’Sullevan in that regard. I think today’s callers are technically better though.
I thought it must have been the Charity Shield but obviously not. This is then followed by two repeated Quiz shows. All this on a day when Jumps action, albeit intermittently, returns to “some” screens 
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