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Part 1: “Regain/defend his crown.” There is no “crown.” You mean win the race again. “On the front end.” You mean he’s in the lead. “Soandso ‘won’ The Derby.” You mean “wins” The Derby. You’re commentating on live sport. It’s happening NOW.
Feel free to add your own if you’re as pedantic as I am.
Gladders must have a few – he’s the Crown Prince Of Pedantry.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“Go forwards” – given that I’ve yet to see any racehorse go backwards I assume that means “Make the running”. You probably haven’t heard that one as it’s very much the preserve of the ITV podium pundits especially J Weaver and A Mulrennan. See also “pace angle”.
“Go forwards” is my particular pet hate, Salut A Toi. I’d be somewhat concerned were my horse to start reversing.
Chezza- I’ll come back to this thread after others have had their say.
By the way, we had a thread on a similar theme not so long ago.
“Go forwards” – given that I’ve yet to see any racehorse go backwards I assume that means “Make the running”.
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I did vaguely recall that, Gladders, but as usual I was far too lazy to go looking for it.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Jumping from fence to fence.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysAlice Plunkett has said a few times lately that a horse looks “popping” in her paddock reports
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By no means confined to racing but the ugly and inaccurate “back to back” instead of “consecutive” brings me to the boil every time.
Any euphemism for whip use. It is not a ‘persuader’, they are not ‘reminders’, it is a whip and the animal is being struck with it.
I have noticed how one or two commentators have started using the term “pro-cush” rather than “whip” in their commentaries now.
I am not usually squeamish about the use of the whip or whatever we are meant to call it now but Jamie Moore really looked to get stuck into Larry when he won at Ascot yesterday. I am sure he did not break any rules but it did not look pretty either.
I’ve been listening to the football on the radio as I’ve been driving a lot this weekend. ‘The referee’s give a yellow card’. No, ‘the referee has given a yellow card’ or ‘the referee gave a yellow card’.
A horse won at Leicester today after being off the track for 21 months. The commentator inevitably said it was “a great training performance”.
But is it? 30 years ago I would have said it was. Now, while it is not commonplace, it is not particularly unusual for a horse to win after such an absence.
Is it an old fashioned way of thinking to say it must be a great training performance? Some horses run really well when fresh.
I reckon it will be a far better training performance if the horse wins or runs well next time, in defiance of the “bounce factor”.
“I’ve been listening to the football on the radio as I’ve been driving a lot this weekend. ‘The referee’s give a yellow card’. No, ‘the referee has given a yellow card’ or ‘the referee gave a yellow card’”
A fairly minor infraction that one by the dismal standards of football punditry (but still irksome I agree). Unless it’s Pat Nevin doing the radio summarising you can be sure of some major linguistic atrocities. I’m sure on Monday I heard Clinton Morrison say about a player “he didn’t know nuffink about it”.
Football rather than racing but the insistence that we need a calculator to work out “goal difference” drives me mad. Less than one minute into this afternoon’s Belgium v Croatia match whoever the dullard commentator was made reference to it as if subtracting one number from another number and then comparing it to another number requires massive computational power.
As Blackadder said to Baldric “the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this”.
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You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Lisa O’Neil, in reviewing the juvenile hurdle at Fairyhouse, said Paul Townend made an “unbelievable” move to get a “phenomenal” run up the inside.
What was so unusual about it to merit such hyperbole? He didn’t even win the race!
I was thinking that too, CAS.
Ms O’Neill generally knows her stuff, but her tendency to start every contribution with “Yeah…” is really irritating.
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