sky sports racing launch

Headline names dreadful. How long can Hammond keep getting a gig as a 'glamorous face'? 

The only good thing about any of that is ditching Cooper. Overdue by about 20 years.

Fitzy really must know where the bodies are buried.

Fitzy adds nothing to the show.Waste of space.

Worlds greatest aftertimer ...Jamie lynch

Who should they have signed up then?

Good news is no mention of Thompson or Mapletoft as well

Jamie Lynch leaves Timeform to join Sky full time

What no Dale Gibson? Surely they should be including the punters pal :-)

Anyone know what's happening with the ATR website...are they rebranding or just closing it down?

Found  the answer in the questions and answer section on ATR site

the pies....not Jamie lynch..........any dull c**t can tell the result 2 days after the race

Surely they will need a few more on board? Always defended ATR but Lynch and Fitzgerald ffs!
Tylicki obviously had a terrible life changing accident and obviously deserves a break so presumably he's Sky's answer to George Baker!

Dec 5, 2018 -- 1:22PM, portmanpark wrote:

the pies....not Jamie lynch..........any dull c**t can tell the result 2 days after the race

The Timeform fellas are as useful to racing as bicycle pedals on a wheelchair

At The Races will be relaunched as Sky Sports Racing in HD on January 1 and has added Ascot, Bangor and Chester to its portfolio of UK racecourses since May.

Former jockey Freddy Tylicki will be adding insight from his experiences in the saddle as a pundit, as will Mick Fitzgerald, Kevin Blake, Josh Apiafi and Jamie Lynch, with Lynch leaving Timeform to join Sky Sports Racing on a full-time basis.
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Would imagine that, perhaps, Bob Cooper, Harvey, Muppletoft et al may well still be on board  - But mostly ON COURSE.

NOW -the really BAD News ...

The core programme schedule from ATR will remain, with Get In among the shows continuing    on Sky Sports Racing, as will The Sunday Forum in a new guise of The Sunday Debate.

Theres one on RUK whose ok.Young guy with dark hair was on last weekend.Think he works for timeform.Also think the bald Dixon brother is ok as well.

Just add I don't mind Zoey,think she's improved considerably admittedly from a low starting point and you need a decent bit of eye candy now and again,presumably Hammond gets one of the key roles because of the sky sports news presenting.

Big João Da Mata, confirmed as roving course reporter

alongside Andrew Ridell - the Royal Ascot buffet tasting feature will be good

onlooker

At The Races will be relaunched as Sky Sports Racing in HD on January 1 and has added Ascot, Bangor and Chester to its portfolio of UK racecourses since May.

That's the really bad news.

I suppose the way things work nowadays and the timing of it goes someway to explain the decision the other night.
i.e that Weaver is a superior presenter/broadcaster to Nick Luck et al. All aboard!

Unfortunately, according to ATR blurb both Cooper and Cattermole are part of team. So no pluses whatsoever.

You would have to be a complete clown not to want a more even split of meetings. The more that desert RUK the better.

Why Lynch? He's the king of aftertimers!

Yep,it looks as though everybody's still aboard.

And were still getting all them goodies for free?

news flash, gok wan in as fashion expert

Sky "Free" 

"Yes if you pay for the rest of the sports channels,movie or QVC" 

faster pics will  be great

Majority of SKY subscribers are paying into their gravy train rather than horse racing fans and punters in the past. How reassuring and comforting for the benefactors!

lets hope the pictures are faster!!.

should be same as RUK HD

at least its better than the 5/6 seconds the now!! , broadsword! ( loved that horse by the way)lol

A dreadful line up, mainly the same old faces and little in the way of much needed new blood.  How Fitzgerald and Hammond get work is beyond belief.  A small positive is that they seem to have ditched Thompson and Enzo.

imagine not having to put up with betfair LV.......cant wait

broadsword 05 Dec 18 16:43 
faster pics will  be great


Who's said this, I'd assume they'll be delayed like ATR

What are you basing this on, Broadsword - everything I've heard suggests no real improvement.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't delayed like ATR

royal ascot will be murder next year!!

It'll be strange watching Chester via the LV

I have a question, what is happening to the racing from the states and oz. Only the top meetings are mentioned which sounds worrying to me. I reckon the daily stuff is going, which is terrible news, hope I'm wrong but no mention rings alarm bells.

What would be handy to know how many seconds they will be behind real time ....ATR beyond rubbish

agree raffingora. ATR must be embarrassed about the delay

I'll never forget when Fitzy suggested restarting a race at Fontwell after it was stopped halfway through, the thread on here was hilarious.

Jamie Lunch talks to people like they are simpletons

So sky sport racing might not be any better than ATR then!

"Lynch will leave Timeform to join sky sports racing on a full time basis as a senior racing analyst"
Our cup truly runneth over.
Re the time delay all they are saying is it won't be any worse! So I wouldn't hold your breath.

So you need to have the basic entertainment pack at £25pm to view Sky Sports Racing HD?  Can see it being much slower in HD like the rest produced by Sky under the sports pack.  Racing UK use a different encryption not sure if that helps or not with speed

25 a month for a slowboat to china better off  on the raw feeds and blv if your desperate to lose
you could always ask willy wonka for a golden ticket onto the track circuit

We need an independent administered racing channel - not a channel being run by bookmakers themselves.

No doubt we are going to hear Sky Bet this and Sky Bet that ,as SKY now being the majority share owner of the ATR company in Partnership with Arena Leisure.

We need a channel which is more interactive with Racing fans , bit like a cooperative and  under a constitution voted in by racing fans worldwide - im just sick of ATR and Racing UK and the same old bookie sponsored pundits

Iff I could put a picture of my head in my hands I would.

We need a punter like mark winstaley or harry Findlay to tell it like it is for the punter back home

We’re r all the punters gone??????alex bird we need you.

Seems like everybody needs a tip on here.Make your own choice or give up.

We don’t need tips just a layman’s opinion

Couch and Findlay? I don't think they need a re-run of all our yesterdays. Only three months before you can catch all the stale old jokes on the Festival circuit.

bring back the Richard Linley/ Julian Wilson days

oh and Raleigh Gilbert on itv

always remember being in a Corals bookies one Sat morning when Winstanley made a joke about Saddam being captured .... - he was jesting of course but he disappeared for a while and Saddam got captured about 10-12 weeks later

Wud take him or Findlay any day of week over these card board cut outs they wheel out day in day out for a bit of analysis

What about adding David CRAVAT Yates?. Very knowledgeable.

Proper Punter Harry, great read  his book.

The bookmakers insidious presence on horse racing channels every day, trainers wearing bookmaker sponsored clothing.

At the end of the day guys doesn't matter who they put on we all have people we like and dislike that's life. All I know is Alex Hammond is FERKING hot and that's not a bad thing. Feeling the temp rise already lmao.

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Hey ash is this a game anyone can join in lmao

test 3.

only a game for me, can't post as normal on firefox, have to go to chrome.

Is that why Ash you haven't posted Pricewise Ante post selections?.(Boxing day King George)

no, stopped posting ante-post prices when most bookmakers stopped holding prices on the day.
take todays ts king george pricewise selection thistlecrack at 8/1.
6 bookmakers listed at 8/1, but how many held the that price today.
only fred at 7/1 will hold the price.

Today's Propaganda -

'Game changer' Sky Sports Racing aims to widen sport's appeal with coverage

Sky Sports Racing will take over next month from At The Races, whose chief executive Matthew Imi said at the launch: "We believe Sky Sports Racing will be a game changer for the sport, with a significant investment in production raising the bar for daily coverage of horseracing."

  -  followed by ...

Mike Cattermole, John Hunt, Sean Boyce, Zoey Bird, Martin Kelly, Simon Mapletoft, Anthony Ennis, Darrell Williams, Robert Cooper and John Blance will also form part of the presenting team.

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- followed by - in another, Alex Hammond, story ...

"A lot of the content will be very familiar from At The Races and we intend to keep the friendly, upbeat, happy and approachable type of broadcast that viewers are used to seeing.


"Game CHANGER" - eh.

As long as we still get 45 mins of adverts per hour, I'll be happy .

Who is this faceless Matthew Imi, the guy responsible for all this crap.
Love to see him on a Questions & Answers forum.
Love to see him anywhere, any one ever seen him ??

I think Matt Williams is due to meet Imi to discuss the slow pics situation

Are they still going to show the american meetings ?

Replace Darrell Williams with Pharrell Williams and everyone will be 'Happy'.

they will show american racing, but don't know how much.
no mention from sky or ruk who is showing racing from dubai, think a deal is  still to be announced.

ATR coverage of American Racing is now quite poor although Betfair Live Video coverage is full screen and more than adequate.

imi the one who comes up with all those huge atr viewing figures that we all believe

Thanks for that Ash.