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I’ve been watching the Racing Review on RUK. Richard is surely the best commentator there is now. His commentary on the Lough Derg race was absolutely amazing it matched the race and captured all the drama perfectly.
You can tell he’s a man who is thoroughly enjoying what he’s doing.
Simon Holt is good but this guy is better.
Is he the one with the husky voice? Yeah he’s not bad, room for improvement like most of them but fairly solid. I somtimes think if you’re betting in running you’re better off listening to commentator on RUK if it’s someone like Hoiles opposed to the BBC ones despite the 3 sec delay. The BBC commentators seem to miss a lot of the fallers for some reason.
Maybe we should have a poll for commentator of the year.We did have the poll which he won and the husky voice at present is due to the fact that Richard hasn’t been too well.
He has still soldiered on and yesterdays ‘New Days Resolution’ comment refrerring to the bravery of Lough Derg was typically apt and in keeping with what had happened.
Although he did miss the faller in the big 2m5f Chase at the top of the hill yesterday.
Shows his dedication when he could quite easily put his feet up at home when it does sound like he has a bit of a cold at the moment.
Zoz did text me during Cheltenham yesterday and noted that Hoiles said: "And AP looks between his legs and sees Ruby Walsh". We had a brief immature giggle.
Although he did miss the faller in the big 2m5f Chase at the top of the hill yesterday.
I stand to be corrected here but I thought it was Mike Cattermole on Ch4 who missed the fall of My Petra in the big chase.
"And AP looks between his legs and sees Ruby Walsh". We had a brief immature giggle.
You’re just a big throbbing mass of naughty this evening, aren’t you, hun!
(fnarr fnarr)
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Is it Richard who calls Kauto ‘cowtoe’? if so brilliant caller except this with kauto… kate-o all the way not cowtoe
Kautostar1,
i could have swore Richard Hoiles calls him "Kowtoe" dalling, Mike Cattermole calls him "KawToe" and the rest say "Kaytoe"! You are most worthy calling yourself after the fine looking beast that he is!x I guess you prefer Ruby riding than Sam!Rather bizarre reading about yourself !
Can’t have others being blamed for my mistakes though and certainly didn’t see My Petra capsize on Thursday. Sometimes you are looking in the right place and sometimes you’re not and I am afraid until I can finally shift this viral infection I am not sharp enough to play it anything other than dead safe.
Sorry the voice couldn;t really deliver the Lough Derg race to maximum effect, knew I had gone past the point of no return halfway up the run in but am sure the race spoke for itself anyway – he is some tough old bugger and even if you know he is going to rally you still think he can’t do it.
Finally re : Cow-toe Star which is what I have always called him. There was lots of debate when he came over with differences between connections and trainer etc.though of course none of them named him.
When I looked at it I went back to the dam Kauto Relka who was sired by Kautokeino which is a village in the Finnmark region of Norway. The English pronunciation of the first syllable being Cow-toe.
Am afraid it is now so entrenched for me I couldn’t change it easily anyway and someone told me Matt Chapman was getting up tight about it the other day so thats another good reason for sticking with it.Anyway Happy New Year to one and all and hopefully voice will be a little closer to normal at either Sandown or Kempton tomorrow !
Richard,
i"m just going to "Swop" my above post, so it looks like i was right the first time round! Get yerself a hot Toddy with a touch a malt!anyway and someone told me Matt Chapman was getting up tight about it the other day so thats another good reason for sticking with it.
Must almost certainly mean you are correct too, RIchard.
Richard,
i"m just going to "Swop" my above post, so it looks like i was right the first time round! Get yerself a hot Toddy with a touch a malt!Ignore that one Richard. Bob’s hot toddy handed down through the generations of Borderers is Honey, lemon (a lemsip is the accepted form in the Bell household) and thee caps of a good blend. Doesn’t do much for the cold but it sends you to sleep with a warm glow.
How do you all pronounce "Auteuil" then????
Piece of cake: Oh-tee-yew-ill.
Difficult to actually describe the pronunciation without voicing it to you, but I say Aw-terwee however the "erwee" is very, very subtle.
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OR-Teal
Sounds about right.
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