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Disappointing that ITV aren’t covering the traditional ‘season opener’at Chepstow tomorrow. Pretty poor in my opinion – was a meeting the BBC used to cover and featured the 3m Mercedes-Benz Chase, plus the Timeform Free Handicap 4YO Hurdle. It’s an event better meeting now, but ITV have ignored it.
Is Tanya feeding Peter Naughton on RUK too? “Only 2 winning favs since 2007 in the Coral Sprint at York” he says. It’s hard to believe some of these people get paid for our entertainment
ITV Could’ve shown the horses in the paddock for the Champion Stakes.
Instead showed us some food.Value Is EverythingOh dear Matt Chapman what have you done I don’t put itv racing on much but last week and this week I had misfortune to see Matt getting rattled by the punters in the ring, he has now set a precedence to be interrupted every week.
It clearly is going to be a game for the punters, Matt I thought you had more sense than to let them get to you.
Dear Matt: please do not use words when you don’t know what they mean.
Dear everyone on ITV Racing: please learn how to pronounce the word “Mai” properly. It is something you should have learnt at school.Too much talk off seedless grapes and their benefits on the Opening Show and Rishi struggled to keep it together.
Hurry back Oli and send Rishi and Matt back out in the cold as far away from the food as possible.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Ps..had to smile at the commentary on a horse called Coologue this afternoon every time he got a mention if you know what the pronunciation of Coologue (Culo) translates to in Spanish.
Perhaps they’ll pronounce it Coolog(ue) for future races or they might have to bleep out Richard Hoiles every time he says it. Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...<p abp=”290″>Too much talk off seedless grapes and their benefits on the Opening Show and Rishi struggled to keep it together.<br abp=”291″>
Hurry back Oli and send Rishi and Matt back out in the cold as far away from the food as possible.And the camera.
I was really surprised that ITV weren’t based at Wetherby for today’s Charlie Hall Chase. Yes Ascot staged some valuable races but I wanted their coverage to be centered on Cue Card, Coneygree etc.
Also not the first time was I overjoyed to have to put up with the antics of Matt Chapman.
Did they not show more races from Wetherby than Ch4 used to, though?
I’m fairly certain that Ch4 used to show 4 races from Wetherby, hosting their coverage from there & used their tracking camera for the big race
Was Mark Johnson’s on course commentary used for the TV races from Newcastle on ITV today? If it was I can imagine the sound of mute buttons being pressed was erm deafening. Grating is a polite description.
He was somewhat bearable until he did that stint in the US and then came back here and now all we get are those stupid Americanisms (they are in the gate etc) and the shouting commentary – best thing when ITV started out was that he wasn’t given the lead commentator role.
He was somewhat bearable until he did that stint in the US and then came back here and now all we get are those stupid Americanisms (they are in the gate etc) and the shouting commentary – best thing when ITV started out was that he wasn’t given the lead commentator role.
Couldn’t agree more – The Fighting Fifth and the Rehearsal Chase are not sprints at Del Mar, Aqueduct or Churchill Downs.
I paid more to upgrade my Virgin subscription so I could watch racing in HD when ITV took over racing and moved it to one of the less popular channels. Perhaps they should advertise it racing in HD sometimes. The pictures from Doncaster were appalling today, you could get better quality on a mobile phone. If they can’t send their own cameras and film it in HD, please why bother? You could watch it on ATR in that low quality image.
I’m sure everyone will be as thrilled as I was to read that the awful Matt Chapman will be the commentator for the revived series of Dancing On Ice early next year.
The role was previously filled by the excellent and much missed Tony Gubba.
The thought of Chapman ruining Dancing On Ice as well as, in the past, racecourse commentaries and, currently, ITV Racing has left me feeling distinctly deflated.
He will no doubt be totally over the top, with his ridiculous voice modulations, rather than being quietly authoritative, understated and unassuming, as was the case with Tony Gubba and his successor, tennis commentator Simon Reed.
Marmite Man makes another step forward in his bid for sporting world domination. He is understandably cock-a-hoop. Certainly cock-a-something.
Even Ivor The Engine soundalike voiceover man Richard Hoiles would have been preferable. Perhaps Mr Shouty Man Chapman will have decibels rival Mark Johnson as his deputy. Preferably not Tania Stevenson though.
I often can’t stand Chapman but credit to him today for finding out and explaining to the viewers why limb fractures in horses are often not able to be repaired.
As for Hoiles sounding like Ifor the Engine voiceover man- Oliver Postgate (who also narrated Bagpuss and the Clangers) was brilliant! I’d much rather listen to Hoiles commentating (and the calm British/Irish style in general) than the frenzied stuff you hear in some international racing.
Perhaps they’ll pronounce it Coolog(ue) for future races or they might have to bleep out Richard Hoiles every time he says it. 
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