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“If Jamie Lynch calls the Lockinge a “semi final” again, I’m going to scream. How this absolute chancer (yes, I know he used to be with Timeform, but as a presenter he’s hopeless) has a permanent spot on the presentation team is an utter mystery.”
What did he mean by “semi final”? Semi final for what?
Richard Holies couldn’t even pronounce Plaid correctly the other day. Thought he was well educated?
“It is easy for those who have never sat on a horse to be critical of jockeys. Horses are not machines and have a mind of their own. In my view the majority of jockeys are talented. Punters lose in the long term because bookmakers set the odds in their favour, not because jockeys are not up to it!”
Nonsense value31, why do Ballydoyle employ Ryan Moore and why did you follow him when he was apprentice?
There are good and bad rides all the time and this thread is called Bad Rides -lets call them.
The last race at Donny yesterday, the rider of the second beaten a short head, stopped riding inside the final furlong but the stewards took no action against the jockey.
And what was Sean Levey doing with his reins near the finish in the London Gold Cup?Finley Marsh on Silver Ghost, would surely have won if she hadn’t been given too much to do.
Think the jockey realised this passing the winning post as he continued riding and using his whip after it.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.“Times of the first 3 races suggest the going is no slower than Good.”
So they got the ground description wrong as well, as they did earlier in the week. Did the same last year when it was on the soft side after watering. What a fiasco.
Another horse (Fletcher’s Flight) comes out of the stalls last night at Kempton with no jockey but the blindfold still on. Anything could have happened and there have been plenty of incidents over the years with the horses running loose out of the stalls with the blindfold still on but no jockey. A top sprinter of Tim Easterby’s Fayr Jag was even killed at Ponty.
The BHA continue to do nothing about it. I don’t really like blindfolds at all even to go in the stalls but why don’t they have a rule that they have to be removed before the stalls open? If this fails to happen they penalise the jockey. Of all incidents regarding blindfolds over the years I’ve yet to hear of a jockey being penalised. They should be.
I’m surprised health and safety or the RSPCA have never got involved in this issue.
10mm with rain forecast, it’s got to be incompetence despite Chamberlin & Chapman saying what a great job she does.
As Hayley Turner said there was no need to put 3mm on last night with rain forecast.
We never seemed to have a problem producing good to firm ground for flat racing years ago, now we can’t even have it.I thought Kevin Blake has been a welcome addition to the team this weekend, it’s better when people know what they are actually talking about although I think Weaver is quite good as well.
I must admit though I’m a bit puzzled by Kevin’s stance on interference rules, he concentrated entirely on the British rules and how lacking they are but are the Irish rules significantly different?
And I wonder what he made of all the interference in the Kentucky Derby? It added to the excitement of the race for me and I’m not sure if any jockeys were suspended there.Well done Billy. Thank God he didn’t waste his claim on Micky Mouse races on the all weather.
“Inothewayurthinkin will end up running in the Cross Country race and the Grand National, as Minella Indo (another mediocre Gold Cup winner) did.”
Thought at the time they missed their golden opportunity with him in National last year, when he was so well handicapped due to the farcical handicapping system. Think he was 7/4 or 2/1 just prior to his withdrawal.
Slack Alice
Maybe with it being her last day before her 6 month summer break her mind wasn’t quite on the job.
Why would anyone think Thistle Ask was a mare but looked quite masculine? Very odd and two geldings out of the four she looked at in the 1.45 she described as fillies.
I do remember sometime ago she described a horse as looking really well in the paddock despite him/her being withdrawn 6 hours earlier.Well done Racing TV. First 4 races at Sandown plus a further one at Leicester split screen with a mediocre meeting at Limerick.
Maybe I should have put potential millions. Not sure how relevant the quality of the race should be to a judge.
With all the betting outlets are you really saying there aren’t millions at stake on every race Gladiateur?
As Greg Wood said when Dave Smith got fired for a similar offence.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2013/jul/07/kempton-dave-smith-bha-al-zarooni
A lazy, poor mistake at best, made in exceptionally quick time. How do we know corruption is not involved with millions of pounds at stake?
Can we expect a lengthy suspension for the judge Fraser Perratt as happens when jockeys make a “mistake”? Maybe he should just hold his hands up and resign.“Agree with Griff, who’s post has had a massive response (not).”
Maybe because you both appear to have posted on the wrong thread. This one is about Racing TV not ITV Racing.
Regarding those annoying, distracting positional graphics that are neither use nor ornament, I’ve yet to hear from anyone who likes them.
In fact from the multitude of presenters and pundits on Racing TV I’ve yet to hear from just one of them what a great addition the graphics are to their coverage and why?
