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The repeated close shots of Dawn Approach post race were really annoying. No perspective.Something I associated with latter day BBC coverage. The day late review was fairly well done.
I don`t know why anyone would want to speak to this particular winning owner. Has he ever given an interesting response? There`s far too much speaking to connections before and after at the expense of seeing the horsesI agree with Pilgarlic, far too many interviews & compilations & not enough views of the runners. A look at the horses in the paddock gives clues to how they will run next time & will progress, seeing their action going down is important too. Not all of us can get to the races. Also I cannot stand that advert with the man on the horse with the mobile phone, it is dreadful. I nearly always record & fast forward now.
Thought Claire Balding’s face was a picture when the Sheikh cut the interview short. Not sure it was like a new naughty school girl look after been told off or a glance into the camera to tell her bosses "I knew that would happen but you wanted me to go through with it"
Perhaps the look was "Oops, it turns out I’m NOT the most important person here".
Seriously, very disrespectful treatment of a head of state. How would we feel if our queen or president was questioned in such a manner whilst visting another country? It would have been OK it that were the agreed subject of the interview but this was clearly a post-race interview and should have kept to that subject.
I can understand not showing results from other meetings, but not showing the result that has just been televised is criminal.
AND it wasn’t just any race it was one of only five of the British Classics.
The biggest thing of the day for the regular racing watcher would have clearly been Dawn Approach’s victory, the biggest thing for the occasional / new racing watcher who had a few quid on an outsider say Glory Awaits at 150 / 1 for example, would have been to find out where there horse finished, as someone has already said the colours for Toronado and Glory Awaits weren’t to dissimilar easy to get confused would someone new to racing be able to tell the difference?
The biggest thing of the day for Channel 4 was quizzing the Sheik on the use of steroids and that is what they concentrated on. Pathetic.
Won’t be long before we have no racing on terestial tv, it’s all well and good saying get Racing UK but your casual viewer isn’t going to do that, the only racing they’d see is the
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attempt made by Channel 4.
Seriously, very disrespectful treatment of a head of state. How would we feel if our queen or president was questioned in such a manner whilst visting another country? It would have been OK it that were the agreed subject of the interview but this was clearly a post-race interview and should have kept to that subject.
Thanks for that comment and although I suspect it wasn’t your intention, you really have cheered up what had been a dull day – I can’t recall laughing so much in a long time.
Disrespectful????
Respect is something that has to be earned – it is not something that is automatically acquired by dint of being a head of state (which he isn’t by the way)
Now I appreciate old Mo is used to living in a place where the press is state controlled and what he does he does cannot be questioned – but as the old saying goes "when in Rome" – so if he doesn’t want to be asked awkward questions by a free press I suggest he keeps away from places where he may be questioned.
If journalists only asked questions on "agreed subjects" then those with something to hide would very rarely be revealed.
Yes, the racing’s enjoyable, but can I be alone in finding the ingratiating, fawning, knee-bending obseqiousness of many (most) of C4’s presenters off-putting? In fairness, it was just the same when covered by the BBC.
Every year we’re informed by some lick-spittle how the queen is a real expert on horses (Yes – we know, we don’t need reminding every day of the meeting, every year!!). Are the presenters after OBE’s or something?
Whilst I’d rather have a monarch than a political head-of-state, I could do without the brown-nosing, lick-spittle worship of royalty. It reaches truly vomit inducing levels at this meeting.
And don’t get me started on Gok Wan and the fasion coverage!!!“ingratiating, fawning, knee-bending obsequiousness brown-nosing, lick-spittle worship”
Brilliant !!
All I could come up with was “sycophantic toadies”
Not sure if I spelt that correctly.
It was refreshing to see Brendan Powell snr. in the paddock interviewed earlier stating he was not ‘a top hat and tails man’, also to see Wesley Wards stable team leading his horses in the parade ring wearing jeans.
Each time they hand over to Gok Kwan I reach for the Gaviscon, the best meeting of the year hi-jacked by outdated pomp.
They should record all the fashion pieces of the show (which is probably around 1 hr.) and show it as a separate programme.They should record all the fashion pieces of the show (which is probably around 1 hr.) and show it as a separate programme.
That’s a really good idea.
"this perfect mix of poetry and destruction, this glory of rhythm, power and majesty: the undisputed champion of the world!!!"
No doubt they’d schedule it on channel 4 at about 1 a.m – still about an hour before the Ascot highlights though.
It seems so, but imagine how high the levels of fawning would have been cranked if Alastair Down was still on the team.
I have been sticking to RUK all week, but have seen snippets from the C4 crew. Many of their analysts seem a little naive, especially in their praise for Wesley Ward. Why do they think it is so great that Ward is winning at Royal Ascot? This is a trainer with a shady history with performance enhancers to say the least. His horses even produce positive tests in a jurisdiction where bute is allowed up to a certain level! Now he shows up and wins our juvenile races with gigantic two-year-olds that ripple with muscle and look more like Denman than a typical scrawny two-year-old. “Great for the meeting” indeed Mr Cunningham.
Racing UK PLEASEEE stop the annoying jingles and captions between races, they don’t even gel they look and sound out of place. Talk about trying to hard I don’t need to keep being told it’s Royal Ascot I KNOWWWW!.
Of course it’s obligatory, it’s British racing and the British racing media.
Mind you, just for a giggle and the pure shock value, I would donate a fiver to hear Nick Luck commentate on the royal procession and say “Omg here comes our parasite of a monarch – Oliver Cromwell had the right idea about her sort.”
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I just flick over for the actual races and have the cricket or YouTube on between events
Being a one off occasion, by and large I can tone out the traditional presenters fawning acts (with the great exception of that tool Rishi Persad and his inane and painful interviewing technique, especially of the winning jockeys in asking the obvious – so how does it feel to win a race at Royal Ascot then etc).
If you have the RUK then you get much more in depth banter/discussion about actual form and race opinion but then being a dedicated racing channel allows them to do that (although this years Royal Ascot adverts were grating and jumping to another televised race is unfortunately a necessary evil). On the downside, having to listen to that double act of Angus McNae & James Willoughby and their sickening love affair with US racing and sectional timing has me immediately reaching for the mute button……but that as they say is another story.
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