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Clare Balding is extremely knowledgeable on horses although she perhaps doesn’t have a handle on the form book. She shouldn’t need to though, others on her team are supposedly there for that.
I really like Lydia Hislop but she doesn’t cut it as a lead presenter IMO. <br>
Hi cormack15
it’s nice to know Jimbo has got at least one fan, in these "harsh" times.
byefrom<br>carlisle<br>
I`m not keen on Claire Balding ( her uncle Toby might be better) but she compares well with the rest of the current BBC outfit.
They have Epsom and Ascot to look forward to and then very little else with Goodwood lost, so don`t know why they need such a big team. I`d start by offloading Loughran ,Persad and Cochrane.( None have contributed a bloody thing to the enjoyment or understanding of the sport)
Quote: from heffo on 2:21 pm on April 18, 2007[br]Madman don’t start me on Chapman.I hate crawlers. The way he arze kisses every trainer and jockey he interviews. One he calls the master trainer, the next is the greatest trainer etc .etc….Such an annoying twat. Loves to bully big mac too.<br>i done a customer servey recently through an email i got from atr, lord i gave him some lambasting. Hope they sack him on my advice.<br>RUK is a class above in my opinion. Showing the breeze ups the last few mornings, great stuff.<br>
Only just subscribed to RUK it broke my heart as I pay too much for my Sky package already. but it was a neccesity as they have virtually all the big flat meetings and Setanta hijacked the American Golf which I love to have a bet on.<br>Anyway getting back to that idiot Chapman Heffo did you ever feel like putting your boot through the TV when he is on, he is relentless he keeps going on and on and on and on when he has an opinion on something.<br>As you said, OTT a total understatement, give me Boyce or Ennis anytime, or better still sack Chapman and put the ever likeable Gary O Brien in the Boot when there is no Irish Racing.
Hear hear to Boyce or Ennis.<br>Chapman’s presenting style would be more suited to the QVC channel than a racing channel.<br>No doubt he’ll ruin Royal Ascot. Not much of a choice between races. You can watch the fashion on BBC or listen to Chapman on ATR.
You shouldn’t have mentioned Chapman, he’s the biggest **** in race broadcasting. Anyone’s entitled to an opinion but that **** has to repeatedly tell you the same stuff time after time. How many times do we need to be told Declan McDonough is the best thing since sliced bread, every time he rides a winner? Matt "a broken record" Chapman – Specialist in verbal diarrhoea<br>Worst of all he’s not averse to interrupting race commentary with mindless drivel. <br>Get him off :angry: <br>
Matt’s ok as a joker, but for someone who used to be a<br>jockey’s agent he’s a mug.<br>
Quote: from yeats on 1:42 pm on April 25, 2007[br]You shouldn’t have mentioned Chapman, he’s the biggest **** in race broadcasting. Anyone’s entitled to an opinion but that **** has to repeatedly tell you the same stuff time after time. How many times do we need to be told Declan McDonough is the best thing since sliced bread, every time he rides a winner? Matt "a broken record" Chapman – Specialist in verbal diarrhoea<br>Worst of all he’s not averse to interrupting race commentary with mindless drivel. <br>Get him off :angry:
That’s one of the things that annoys me most about him. Even when a race has started he’ll still drivel over the commentary for a while, whereas Sean Boyce just concludes with a simple "racing Southwell….."
Hardly a day seems to go by these days without ‘Aussie’ Jim earning a few more shekels on ATR. Although the monotonous drone doesn’t do much for me it appears that someone at ATR now thinks he is their leading presenter. Judged on yesterday’s effort I wonder if the workload is already beginning to take it’s toll already. Called Elsie’s Pride a clear leader when she wasn’t even leading and then in the last declared the leader an ‘easy winner’ half the way up the run in only for it to just scrape home.
He’s been effing useless for the past five years- him and Dessie Scahill need to pack it in and work on their golf or something.
I wonder how many of you remember John Rickman the ITV racing presenter. He was a gentleman, wore a trilby and the veiwers loved him……….he talked total garbage got names of horses totally wrong, had jockeys training horses and trainers riding them..One day in June he thought it was Xmas Day cos Santa Clause won the derby
. he was "Awful"Mind you he did have his moment tipping the first 3 in the Derby in the corrrect order at huge odds.
They kept him on for years and the brain had gone begging
If you are campaigning to get rid of our Jim you might have a long wait………cos the producer probably knows sweet fanny adams about racing and more than likely thinks he’s doing a great job
I loved John Rickman. Some of my earliest racing memories are of him tipping his trilby at the start of the ITV7 on a Saturday afternoon.
The ITV 7 do the bookies do anything similar in the UK these days?
Only the Scoop 6, which is a placepot/jackpot based bet on 6 televised races each Saturday. The bet costs £2 per line.
You have to get all 6 winners to scoop a share of the jackpot pool, while you go forward to the next week, where you have to pick a winner of a selected race to be in with a chance of winning the bonus pool.
The pool often gets over £1m, but it’s one of those ‘once in a lifetime’ bets (or in my case, never in a lifetime). A lot of well organised syndicates give it a go, though when you see the people going for the bonus pool after winning the jackpot, it’s normall some old woman bless her lol.
Mike
I wonder how many of you remember John Rickman the ITV racing presenter. He was a gentleman, wore a trilby and the veiwers loved him……….he talked total garbage got names of horses totally wrong, )
All true, but a lovely, enthusiastic chap with an olde-world charm and deportment now long gone . Seem to recall he spent his retirement in a converted lighthouse.
Like Robert Cooper (his 21st century equivalent), Vic Reeves and the late-great Eric Morecambe he had the kindly face and manner that can’t fail to raise a smile even before words are uttered.
Other than Rickman’s trilby doffing I was also fond of lil’ Lord Oaksey’s plummy "good afternoon ladies and gentlemen"
Rickman, died just over ten years ago.
Here is his obituary if any of you are interested:-
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_q … _n14138315
Regards- Matron
. he was "Awful"
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