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Walsh is perfectly capable of analysing flat racing, one of the better analysts in fact.
Indeed I would rather listen to Ruby regardless of whether it is flat or NH.
The more I know the less I understand.
Was it really necessary to have a mediocre jumps meeting at Punchestown today? All it is doing is taking up space on RTV when it could be spending more time focussing on Epsom. And now there is a horse running loose, delaying the first race.
That’s what happens when bookmakers gracefully allow the BHA to create a small window for The Derby,along comes an Irish race to fill it.
I’ve 50p on a delayed Derby split screen with the 4.40 at PunchestownI was interested to stumble across this screenshot on an entirely different forum. It is the television listings for a Saturday afternoon in 1967.
Note how the BBC was showing racing from Newmarket. ITV showed three races from Sandown Park but that was all, there was no racing programme as such.
It was just before the franchise review of 1968, when ATV lost its London weekend contract to LWT. The weekday/weekend split was abolished in the North and Midlands, which resulted in ABC losing its franchise to Granada (which added the weekend contract to its existing weekday franchise) and to the new Yorkshire Television.
ABC was ordered to merge with Associated Rediffusion to form Thames Television.
Crikey: Juke Box Jury, Dr Who, Dick Van Dyke, The Monkees, High Adventure, The Forsyte Saga and Whicker’s World
Five hours of TV Heaven for a just-out-of-short-trousers juvenile Drone
ITV “Market Mover Field Of Gold 4/5 from 5/6”. Jeez.
Do I spot hype mode again?
Pick one horse every day and go overboard.If that is a “market mover” then half the horses running today must be market movers.
Value Is EverythingI must admit I had never heard of “George And The Dragon”, a sitcom starring Sid James and Peggy Mount. Looking it up, James played George while Mount’s character had the surname Dragon (imagine that being allowed today):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_and_the_Dragon_(TV_series)
Some episodes are on YouTube, which I may have to watch later.
James had his first heart attack while making the series. A second one killed him while he was on stage at the Sunderland Empire.
His ghost is said to still haunt the theatre. A rather tall tale (which I don’t believe) has been told about how it spooked Les Dawson, who vowed never to return.
“I was interested to stumble across this screenshot on an entirely different forum. It is the television listings for a Saturday afternoon in 1967.”
Exactly 58 years ago – Saturday 17th June 1967.
Although race times suggested a direct clash between Sandown and Newmarket, Sandown’s 3.00 and 3.30 were a tad late off, so would have just been possible to change channels and see these, with Joe Mercer completing a double on the Sandown card.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
I’ll be watching En Route: Marie-ici.Donc! to improve my French as well as the Professional Wrestling
Tyne Tees was obviously the childrens’ channel.Thanks – I wondered about the actual date. I figured it was after May due to the absence of “Match Of The Day” from the BBC schedule but good to have it confirmed.
Do you know when the BBC stopped showing Newmarket?
The BBC’s final coverage of Newmarket was at the end of the 1968 season, Saturday 19th October. This was Newmarket’s last meeting of the season, with the final two televised races being the Champion Stakes and the Cambridgeshire.
ITV cameras were in place for the start of the 1969 season with the Craven meeting.
....and you've got to look a long way back for anything else.
“Tyne Tees was obviously the childrens’ channel.”
Yes, it is a reminder of the days when ITV was a loose affiliation of franchises which had considerable freedom over what they showed. Although it looks like they were all showing the same thing on Saturday afternoon.
All those regional names have disappeared now, though the franchises technically still exist. I sometimes wonder if anyone under 30 knows why the regional programme in the North West is still named “Granada Reports”, when the Granada name is never mentioned anywhere else.
I miss seeing the old red neon Granada TV sign, which was such a distinctive sight on the Manchester skyline. I believe it was corroded but I wish someone would put it back.
Francesca just describied Royal Ascot as the pinnacle of the flat racing season…..isn’t that Champions Day?
Just my opinion but its too early in the season to be described as the pinnacle surely? There’s a lot of run of the mill handicaps and 2yo races across the 5 days and the classic generation are still amongst themselves. I’ve always seen York and Irish Champion Stakes as the main bit of the season, King George and Eclipse I guess too are huge races but they are just standalone races. Goodwood is too quirky a track to be taken that seriously for me which is a shame as I enjoy the festival itself just not the constant stuck on the rail behind horses that follows it. As far as Ascot Champions Day goes, its normally a bog and is too close to Arc weekend.
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