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[Cork All Star]

Tom Stanley is on bizarre form today. Earlier in the afternoon he said a bay horse was a chestnut. Then before the Classic Trial he said he was going to say one horse was being coltish but then realised it was the stall handler’s arm..

[yeats]

Well done Racing TV. First 4 races at Sandown plus a further one at Leicester split screen with a mediocre meeting at Limerick.

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I never realised there were so many Irish meetings until they were dumped onto RTV

[Astralcharmer]

Sorry to keep banging on about this but what are RTV up to with those awful positional graphics at Punchestown?

2.30 no graphics
3.05 graphics fall off the screen 78 seconds in
3.40 no graphics
4.15 graphics on screen
4.50 graphics on screen
5.25 no graphics
6.05 graphics on screen
6.35 graphics fall off screen after just 10 seconds

Why do they show graphics for Grade 1s when it’s hardly difficult to know the position of each runner (and spoil the viewing of those races) but don’t show them for bumper races? Are they getting confused with flat racing where thankfully they’ve given up showing them.

It’s an utter mess but it would appear RTV couldn’t give a toss.

[Astralcharmer]

3 runner race in the 1.55 at Kelso. An unseat at hurdle 2. Thankfully the positional graphic stayed on screen to inform us who was leading and in 2nd place otherwise we might have been confused.

[Astralcharmer]

A mixed jumps/flat meeting at Haydock, so you’ve guessed it, the positional graphics on screen for the jumps races including the NH flat race, but not for the following flat races (bar an accidental split second). Will anyone from RTV come forward and explain as blowed if I know why they keep ruining the jump racing coverage.

[yeats]

I try to ignore and take no notice of the positional graphics although there’s no doubt they are an unnecessary distraction.
However for the 12-45 at Haydock I had no sound on so I thought I would watch the graphics to see how accurate they were. They weren’t, they continually had Lord Snootie in the lead in the straight when he wasn’t and continued to have him ahead of his actual placing. Other horses are I looked at in the race were also misplaced.

If they are apparently so useful to viewers why are they removed before the end of the race and not shown on replay?
I’ve yet to hear from presenters and pundits on Racing TV telling us how good and useful the graphics are.

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