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In his first 4 years of commentating he commentated at every course in Britain apart from Cartmel.
I know there was one, possibly two, Racetech commentators who completed a full set by visiting Cartmel in 2006. One of those was definitely Mike Cattermole at that summer’s "barbecue meeting" in July – I remember the fanfare (of sorts) at the time on him so doing as I was working that meeting.
How long after the penultimate course that had come wasn’t mentioned, however. I presume this is for a quiz of sorts, Yeats – does the question give any indication, perhaps?
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It was Peter Bromley in the 50’s graysonscolumn, it just seemed a lot of tracks in only 4 years to me. Wonder if he ever conquered Cartmel?
Blimey, wouldn’t have got that in a week of trying! Ta for confirming, Yeats.
One the one hand it’s quite astonishing he got around as many venues when one considers how many more racetracks there were back then, including some used only once a year (e.g. Rothbury) and others not a lot more than that (e.g. Woore) – to say nothing of the long, pre-motorway drives required to reach them.
On the other hand, there were neither as many fixtures overall, nor as many commentators on the roster, when the then British Racecourse Amplifying and Recording Company gave birth to racecourse commentary in this country in the early 1950s. There would only have been Bromley, Cloudesley Marsham, Michael Seth-Smith and a very small pool of others required the meet the needs of one-, two- and occasionally three-fixture racedays.
His first gig was Plumpton, March 23rd 1955, incidentally.
I know neither Racetech nor the earthly representatives of its antecedents make available copies of the roster for public or personal consumption (even years after the event), but I’d give my eye teeth to see a complete list of who got sent where back in those pioneering days of commentary. Fascinating on so many levels.
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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.
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