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I’ve come round to the view that, when something potentially contentious occurs, Ruby Walsh and Kevin Blake have the intelligence and the bottle to deliver intelligent independent opinions, I like Luke Harvey, though I don’t like Matt Chapman he will ask tough questions, Ed Chamberlin knows his stuff well enough and Alice Plunkett brings a cheerful equestrian angle.
But Tony McCoy and Mick Fitzgerald wouldn’t rock the boat on The Titanic, Francesca Cumani is horrendous, Brian Gleeson is pure cringe and the Social Stable/Fashion stuff is the pits.
Oh and Richard Hoiles is just about ok, but Mark Johnson gives me earache. Mute button!
Have I covered them all?
There’s so many!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Oh, I’d forgotten him, easily done as there’s an army of them.
Some might argue he’s the biggest beneficiary of positive discrimination recruitment policy in broadcasting in the last 20-30 years.
But I wouldn’t be so unkind or unfair, as there’s plenty of white broadcasters who are equally boring and pointless.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Back in the day didn’t they used to go round every yard filming an “at home” bit for each horse for the morning build up programme? I loved that, wish they would do it now.
Older daughter is watching some build up with me but loses interest when it’s just humans rabbiting on and no horse on screen. Although earlier she was recreating the Bowen brothers in the Topham, tipping over her horse (well it’s a stuffed reindeer) and running to congratulate her 2 year old sister for winning on her rocking horse. Fun times.
“recreating the Bowen brothers in the Topham, tipping over her horse (well it’s a stuffed reindeer) and running to congratulate her 2 year old sister for winning on her rocking horse.”
LOVE this – great story in its own right and evokes childhood memories.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Some of the camera angles used for the Topham were awful. I hope they have learned lessons for today. It’s a sporting event, not an arty pop video.
Could probably start a new thread on this on some stories of our childhood memories and things we used to do which then spelt we would always love this sport.
Picked up from my elder brother I used playing cards as ‘horses’ and pushed them round the rectangle carpet as if in a race.
The two of hearts was Arkle, think the ten of spades was Clear Cut, and another was Stalbridge Colonist. The Ace of hearts, I just called Acer though there was no horse of that name.
Arkle won the most. The little extra push got him over the line!
Wore my knees out.
I used to do the same with toy cars, although one day suddenly feeling too old to do this I smashed them up.
“Some of the camera angles used for the Topham were awful.”
Not as bad as the camera position at Dundalk yesterday, which managed to miss a winner going over the finishing line.
I used to adapt “Totopoly” into a Grand National, with dominoes put on the track to act as fences.
CAS said-
““Some of the camera angles used for the Topham were awful.”Not as bad as the camera position at Dundalk yesterday, which managed to miss a winner going over the finishing line.”
@RacingTV Drunk cameraman at Dundalk, lucky it wasn't a nearside rail photo….
— irish ****** (@feck_fr_jack) April 8, 2022
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“Some of the camera angles used for the Topham were awful. I hope they have learned lessons for today. It’s a sporting event, not an arty pop video.”Racing TV haven’t even got a camera that can focus correctly on the first two in the straight on the Mildmay course, see here for example https://www.racingtv.com/videos/watch/horse_racing_replays/384306-betway-mildmay-novices-chase-grade-1-1
The big problem I have with camera angles was that, back in the day, both on BBC and ITV, fixed camera positions were set in stone – maybe literally! – and every race and especially the Grand National you knew exactly what was coming next year after year.
Now it’s a bewildering array of blimps, reverse angles and all subject to continual change, even the same day.
I just want to watch the F ing race!
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Also on the subject of camera angles, it is really poor how some courses still do not have a television camera on the line.
I think every course in Britain does now but that is not the case in Ireland. At Ballinrobe, for example, the camera is a fair distance beyond the finishing post. There was a photo finish last night where the camera angle was no use at all.
I am wondering just how bad the ITV coverage will be. The camera work was terrible, most of the runners were high up and the images were so small. In the 1970s the pictures were better than all the helicopter footage and all the blurry colours, it is like a student film.All the jokey presenters, so much time spent on what chocolate bars they eat when I was just desperate to see the runners prior for the race. I just shout at the TV!
Didn’t seem too much compassion from the team over Elle Est Belle (apart from Hoiles). Correct me if I’m wrong but remember at Cheltenham it was very sombre after the race when one of the training big guns lost one or when Shiskin was pulled.
Obviously they are all equally precious to me, but the biggest PR disaster for racing today would be something happening to Snow Leopardess.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"
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