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The Top 10 Pundits you no longer see on the telly - 2015 update
The Top 10 Pundits you no longer see on the telly - 2015 update
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timeless
29 Oct 15 16:08 like I said, not many people know this and you are one of them. if you're going to try to be funny, you might want to get your soaps the right way round..Ian Beale's in Eastenders |
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I just checked some replays,
when he was related to Steve Beal, he was deffo in Corrie. |
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Has anyone mentioned that bumbling fool Willie Carson?
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Hang on I used to earn £600 a day freelancing to provide the box that Willie stood on when he presented the racing with Claire..
Another reason why I hate the BBC... |
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McCoy Carp Jimmy Lindley?
Of course, I have a really old video I kept when Clare Baldwin first appeared on the scene. Clare described Lochsong has having a chest like Eve Pollard which upset Julian Wilson and the physique of a chippendale which prompted Jimmy to questionly say he couldn't see any similarity with a chair. I kid you not if I can find it I will put it on youtube. Strangely enough they were both pensioned off not long afterwards. |
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Dale McKeown
was good on the American racing. |
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That was during the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender and afraid of them takeover of the BBC..
Never buy a TV Licence simply write to them saying that you will not pay because of their Left Wing Bias and because they pay their presenters and alleged managers excessive salaries... You will then be one of the 600 000 and growing number of people that refuse to pay... |
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GEORGE B: You missed out Walter Swinburn
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Once during a long 1950's newspaper strike the only thing being printed was the old small sized Handicap Book (that gave me the advance entries and previous weeks results) apart from daily stencilled sheets of runners and results being sold from the back of vans. A Guy sitting next to me on the train going to Newbury asked to have a look at it. He asked how I was getting on during the strike I said even better than usual as prices were better as people did not have the form from the Life to help them and I was not being put off any of my selections by tipsters. He smiled at that. I spoke to him again later in the afternoon and found that he was John Rickman. After that he always used to raise his hat to me when he saw me at the races.
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I've had a shocker there, Oldgit. Fancy forgetting about the choirboy!
Lovely story, btw. |
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Clare Baldwin
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Lady Cress a shocking omission
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Ian Carnaby
Jeff Stelling Doug Fraser |
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Ian Carnaby
Jeff Stelling Doug Fraser Don't think you'll be seeing too much of Doug Fraser anymore |
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A certain George Doby or Dobby who used to turn up with John Rickman from time to time. He would introduce the viewers to an item of interest; tack, colours, racecards etc.
Does anybody know anything about him? I have often wondered who he was and who he worked for. |
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Graham Goode on the Morning Line looking like he'd be more comfortable almost anywhere else.
Derek Thompson on Ch4 racing mixing with the public and asking them which horse is going to win. Memories of those two on live terrestrial tv bring a tear to the eye! |
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I remember George Dobbie Dunlaying,as you say always with Rickman,didn't he act as his paddock judge?
No idea what he did apart from the telly bit. |
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Ken Butler - He had a couple of runners last week, must be about 92 years old now.
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Oh I did not know that he was the paddock man Ribero. That is something we see very little of these days ,the paddock.
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I seem to remember Richard Fox appearing on Channel 4 Racing quite a lot in its early days.
I've looked this up and there's no mention of it - perhaps he wasn't an official presenter but he always seemed to be available for a few words and was very engaging. He could talk the hind legs off a donkey. I actually had no idea he had passed away in 2011 at the shockingly young age of 57. This from the Telegraph's obituary: He was also in demand on the after-dinner speaking circuit, to which he brought a repertoire of amusing anecdotes and tall tales from the world of racing. Among his staple stories was a take on the occasion in Trinidad when he rode a winner called Devil Woman for Bob Marley: “As he came into the paddock he sneezed. I was high for nine days.” Fox’s red hair and small stature led to his being hired as a body double for Rupert Grint (in the role of Ron Weasley) in the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002). Richard Fox had been on a life-support machine for two months after collapsing while shopping in Newmarket in April. He never regained consciousness and died on June 28. |
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"The Mystery Tipster" seen in silhouette and he actually managed a few winners. ITV7 era.
Foxy was a most entertaining chap. |
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wasnt that big south africen called andrew retal or something similar think he lost all his punting prowess when he lost all that weight,that bookie from the midlands always on atr called himself the colonel , and that bookies rep ex woman trainer was the best of all time ,bunnyboiler what was she called again
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its come back to me vicky haigh the worst person if to appear in front of a camera cringworthy everytime
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What about "The Pharaoh".Matt whatever his name was.
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Jon Parrott?
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Has Matt Williams been mentioned? He might be keeping his head down if it's true Cardiff have some fast pics.
Steve Beal is still going strong on Turftv not sure what will happen to him when that station ends. |
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few on here being mentioned would need a Ouija board to get them back on tv
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Ken Pitterson has done the best of the lot, made it on to ITV.
Winstanley tipping in the Daily Star. Matt Doyle in New York at 7.42 |