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When asked on Saturday Fitzy said Holloway Queen stood out in the paddock predictably a Henderson horse. Why I backed this horse I don’t know but it trailed around at the back after being prominent.
The more I know the less I understand.
That is all Fitzgerald does. Cheerleads for Henderson and never criticises jockeys. He’s a waste of space.
Looks like the Racing League has crashed and burned as both ARC and ITV have ditched it for a brand new format focused on the 18-25 age range and imaginatively called Friday Night Live and it will be based on:
“Five floodlit meetings will be staged at Newcastle, Wolverhampton and Southwell across January, February and March next year, with each seven-race fixture offering more than £200,000 in prize-money”.
Just like the Racing League, this sounds very much like something else I will not be tuning in for because quite frankly I really don’t enjoy watching AW racing in any way shape or form…….I am a racing snob in that to me it should only be run on the green stuff!
Does anyone else find the latest batch of adverts for Betfred (to use a technical term) bloody annoying?
McCoy and Mayor, plus Bartlett commentating. Thought I’d died and gone to hell. At least Mick Fitz gave it a break this week.
I don’t think I’ve ever had a winner with Bartlett commentating… My horses cannot seem to battle through his strangulated half-arsed upper class braying.
My horses cannot seem to battle through his strangulated half-arsed upper class braying.
“nearest to us”, “two shades of green”, “the lead will be about 20 lengths now”, also likes to mention who won the “best turned out” award…..
Bartlett is the world’s worst if you’re listening to the race on a radio feed. Never have a bloody clue where your horse is.
Stuart Machin is the best commentator around bar none imo. He brings a race to life and adds excellent depth and drama to it. Especially when he’s commenting on a big race and builds up the runners as they approach the last few fences and up the run in! Love him!
Well, I love ITV Racing. Because I’ve loved all the racing that’s been on the telly since I was a child and got me hooked on the sport….if that makes me a bit of a lightweight racing fan sobeit!
Danny’s Friend, the 9/4 favourite, hacks up in the 1.25 at Hereford.
On SSR, the permanently enthusiastic Alex Hammond excitedly informed us that earlier in the programme, Dragon Bet had highlighted the horse as the best backed of the day.
Then, barely pausing for breath, Alex advised us that the horse was “0 from 13 going into the race” but “they have found the key to him now”.
Nice how they found the key when it was the best backed horse of the day, wasn’t it Alex?
And just in time for Christmas as well!
Heard that commentary too, CAS. The question is what was the key? Most likely having it dropped to a mark of 73….
The horse changed stables back in April 2025 and six lacklustre runs since had his OR drop from 85 to 73. Now that’s what I call a key….Thanks ERL. I suspected it would be something like that. Another one for the “shrewd” Christian Williams!
I suppose there is no point getting annoyed about it because the racing media is not going to change – but it is another example of them blindly cheerleading and taking us for mugs.
Dave Yates has been on RTV, reminiscing about what betting shops used to be like. I recognise what he is talking about but Tom Stanley and Rachel Candelora clearly don’t know at all.
I am starting to feel old all of a sudden..
Woodbines , whiff of whiskey , radio commentary ,results on a chalkboard , dog on a rope …. Marvellous
Stanley seemed bemused by the idea you would have a bet and have to listen to a radio commentary and no pictures.
Sad state of affairs really for Rachel and Tom to both freely state neither of them have been in a bookies shop for many a year.
Yates made the very salient point about it sometimes being necessary to go into a shop and hand over money before watching the horse lose so that you get the very real feeling of dejection of losing that money to prevent your losses simply being digits on a screen.
It certainly hit home with me anyway.
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